a. [f. as prec. + -SOME.] Characterized by jokes, facetious, jocular.
1810. H. V. Elliott, Lett., in Bateman, Life, i. (1870), 16. Light and jokesome Terpsichore.
1885. B. L. Farjeon, Sacred Nugget, I. I. xiii. 185. He would indulge in jokesome reminiscences.
Hence Jokesomeness, humorousness.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, III. xxi. 295. Her husband excelled in jokesomeness.
