noun. Being half in jest, half serious.

Our own poet has lately characterized himself as a jocoserious genius; and in fact this jocoseriosity seems of much the same quality with the eironeia of the Greek.
Browning Society Papers, E. Johnson (1885)

Comedians are well known for jocoseriosity: they’ll point out something ridiculous about our lives to make us laugh, as well as to make us think. I’m sure you speak with jocoseriosity all the time.

This observational approach to stand-up humour is almost always effective. By creating an atmosphere of identifiable situations tied in with humour, we’re given the chance to laugh at both the comedian’s past, and our own. Whether you’re watching Robin Williams tear up the Apollo on YouTube while playing a bit of Poker.de, it’s easy to spot this particular technique.

“Does this dress make me look fat?” she asked.
“Yeah, so huge!” he said with jocoseriosity.
He was swiftly incapacitated by a strong kick to the groinal region.

Don’t be that guy. Be jocoserious when appropriate, not on a seriosityful occasion. She wasn’t fat, just not as thin as she used to be.

Leave a comment full of jocoseriosity and jocoserious things you’ve said today!

adj. Really really fat.

So that to a man that is meatefyed in flesh, and whose state (in this world) is desperate, a Sergiant may serue instead of a Deaths head, to put him in minde of his last day.
Jests to Make You Merry, Thomas Dekker & George Wilkins (1607)

It sounds like something you’d say about something you plan on eating, don’t it? “The cows are looking very meatified already. Looks like we’ll be havin’ hamburgers a little earlier this year!”

Or perhaps it refers to someone who eats way too many hamburgers. Or other meat. The steak and bacon diet… not recommended. I do, however, recommend this word as an insult. Use it wisely.

Are you mortified of becoming meatified? No worries. Just send me all your money and you will become thinner in no time!

noun. One who is afraid of the Irish.

It was long enough to demonstrate even to Protestant Hibernophobes that his system was the right one.
Temple Bar Magazine (1889)

It looks like hibernophobe means someone who is afraid of hibernating, but that’s absurd. Sleeping is the best thing ever!

Hiberno- refers to Ireland; Hibernology is the study of Irish history. And a hibernaculum is a place where something sleeps for the winter. So a hibernohibernaculum is a place in Ireland where one hibernates. It could be a name for a chain of hotels in Ireland!

If you know any hibernophobes don’t hesitate to try to quell their fears. There are plenty of better things to be afraid of. Ireland has given us many great things! Like, um… leprechauns… potatoes… the color green…

noun. Rendering impossible.

Sovereigns and their courtiers were flattered by the degradation of nature and the impossibilification of a pretended virtue.
Literary Remains, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1818)

The addition of glasses in high school let to the impossibilification of me getting a date. But that time has passed. Or has it? I’m running a website for Pete’s sake! Whoever Pete is.

I can see this word becoming popular (with your help). There are plenty of impossibilifying circumstances happening all the time keeping people from achieving goals: falling down, dying and not having any quarters left, getting frozen in carbonite, etc.

Do you have more examples of an impossibilification? Or do you want to go out on a date? Leave a comment!