Jo-cōse', a.
a. [Lat. jocosus, from jocus, joke; Sp. jocoso, It. giocoso.]
Sense 1. Given to jokes and jesting; merry; waggish;— said of persons.
Jocose and pleasant with an adversary whom they would choose to treat in a very different manner. Shaftesbury.
Sense 2. Containing a joke; sportive; jocular; as, jocose or comical airs.
Synonyms—Jocular; facetious; witty; merry; pleasant; waggish; sportive.