most jocund

The stragglers are also referred to as the laughing group, and on Tuesday it lost arguably its most jocund member.

The joke and the jest went merrily round with the wine flagon; and he was for a time the best man who could start the most jocund theme.

I know quite well that in a few months' time, flushed with tea and in most jocund mood, they will be sitting at an Induction Soiree drinking in praise of their new minister—and thank goodness I shan't be there to hear the speeches!

The fairies were so delighted to have Pinkeen back again, that they took him up on their shoulders and carried him to the king’s palace, and all the harpers and pipers and fiddlers marched before him playing the most jocund music that was ever heard.

Milton passed the most jocund hours of his life in Gray's Inn, in which college Cleveland and the author of 'Hudibras' held the meetings of their club.