jocular. [f. FUNNY a. + -MENT. Cf. merriment.] Drollery, humor; also, a joke, a comicality.
1845. Alb. Smith, Fort. Scatterg. Fam., xix. (1887), 65. His first funniment took place amongst the macaws, when, after addressing them in their own peculiar language, until he set them all shrieking, he would thrust his hands into his coat tail pockets, and bending his body at a right angle, hop about the lawn in the manner of a large raven.
1861. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, III. 138. A man with heaps of funniment and plenty of talk.
1869. E. Yates, Wrecked in Port, xxviii. 319. I’ll take care to repay you that little funniment on the first convenient opportunity.
