half joke
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A statement which contains elements of both jest and seriousness.
Example Sentences
- ""Well, let's wait. Perhaps the shooting will die out." "Maybe the soldiers and settlers will die out with it," I say, another half-joke."
- ""You know why I think you're working with Cristos? Because once I was captured, once he got what he wanted, it would be far easier to pin it all on me, to kill my wife, dump her body where it would never be found, convince me and the world that I was crazy, no trial, just lock me up in a padded room until I succumbed to the cancer." "That sounds like a pretty good plan," Frank said, half joking."