tongue-in-cheek

Jocular or humorous, though seeming or appearing to be serious. The president's tongue-in-cheek speech about the "War on Couch Potatoes" has been extremely popular on the Internet this week.

tongue-in-cheek

Fig. insincere; joking. Ann made a tongue-in-cheek remark to John, and he got mad because he thought she was serious. The play seemed very serious at first, but then everyone saw that it was tongue-in-cheek, and they began laughing.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Nwanneka	-	Western African, Igbo
Austin	AWS-tin	English
Alaba	-	Western African, Yoruba
Jeane	JEEN	English
Kunigunde	koo-nee-GUWN-də	German
Duygu	-	Turkish