(1) Users discover that devices are suddenly answering back or misbehaving before the revelation that a jokey ghost has been placed in the machine.
(2) I started chatting with owner Charlie MacDonald about who would take over from Donnie in a jokey way at first, but then, before I knew it I had left my job and joined Stag as Donnie's replacement.
(3) Michel explained: "My wife is English and Spanish so … " Jay suggested to Michel he understood "the value of human interaction, whether it's by jokey text message, warm text message, mobile conversation or face-to-face meeting.
(4) Also, in South Africa, as in Australia, another huge Nando's market, Nando's is marketed as a jokey brand.
(5) Despite their jokey exterior, most had big things on their mind, fretting over marriages and babies, breakups and single life; less "grossout" comedy than "freakout".
(6) Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it was unquestionably the closest the movie series has come to capturing the spirit of Fleming's early work.
(7) Green and Wallace used to have a long-running jokey argument along these lines, about whether Wallace should allow his "inner sap" into his prose.
(8) He did his best to keep it informal and jokey but he was finding it harder and harder to pick someone out who would ask him a tame gimme.
(9) Some jokey conspiracy theories did the rounds and one YouTube user criticised Hadfield's interpretation of the song as being overly literal (arguably correct, but a trifle harsh, considering).
(10) In comparison, mine was comparatively mild and merely slightly jokey."
(11) He has also followed his father in being somewhat "jokey" in person while retaining a set of "sternly puritanical" principles.
(12) Panti Bliss, aka Rory O’Neill – the drag queen, gay icon and now national treasure who was the yes campaign’s ace card in the referendum – tells a wonderful story about meeting Madonna: “Her default setting is jokey cunt.” His dress is fabulous: a glitter ball stuffed in a Coca-Cola bottle.
(13) He is often portrayed as the classic "serious clown" whose intense, driven private personality is at odds with his public image as a jokey, happy-go-lucky talkshow host.
(14) The songs are celebrated for the cheerful candour of their intimacy, with the 2009 single Not Fair bemoaning an ex-boyfriend's premature ejaculation, while Alfie, a hit from her 2006 debut album, was a jokey hymn to her irritation with her stoner baby brother Alfie .
(15) Posting a jokey picture of herself pretending to throttle Cowell, she wrote: "GUESS WHAT!!
(16) 8.45am GMT IDF jokes on Twitter go down badly The IDF is attracting criticism for the jokey tone of updates by some of its members on Twitter, amid the bloodshed.
(17) In his jokey quips and famous "top 10" lists Letterman and his team of writers have rarely pulled their punches.
(18) The Batman movies of the 1990s were camp and jokey; the Dark Knight movies, appearing a decade later, were not.
(19) Silver!” chips in Ringo, in a jokey stage-whisper.
(20) His classroom feels like a teenage bedroom, with a "No diving" sign by the window and various jokey posters on the packed walls, including a laminated teabag (an in-joke with a previous class) and a shrine to a former head girl who bagged 11 A*s. It turns out Burton, 30, really was once in a "rubbish band" – a subject of much fascination among the pupils – but has taught at Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, since he qualified as a teacher.
Pokey
Definition:
(a.) See Poky.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1.24pm BST An email: "Re your mentioning Jim White Day, Jim gets his barnet cut in the same pokey barbers as I do in Richmond.
(2) I've previously stood in the pokey bed chamber where it is thought William Shakepeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, the grander birthplace of Winston Churchill at Blenheim Palace and the cramped abode where Stan Laurel breathed his first in Ulverston, Cumbria.
(3) Hocking no longer lives in that pokey apartment, but then she's no longer a struggling would-be author.
(4) What Ms Sturgeon does require to be told is that many of the rest of us have not thus far encountered a spell in the pokey for assorted concealed delinquencies only through fortunate circumstance and the prayers of countless grannies, aunties and mums.
(5) His name is commemorated in a pokey square under the monstrous Stratford Centre built after the clearances.
(6) For what it can cost to rent a room in a pokey flat, you've got the run of a 10-bedroom Victorian house that comes complete with a grand piano, conservatory and a willow tree.
(7) Their thesis is not new, but the evidence of pokey overpriced housing and endless unpaid internships piles up convincingly.
(8) In particular, what will his weird toe-pokey free-kick style do to this ball?