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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 | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Isaura | | ee-SOW-rah (Spanish) | Portuguese, Spanish, Late Roman |
| Malina (2) | | mah-LEE-nah (Polish) | Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish |
| Floyd | | [flɔid] | |
| Gwynedd | | - | Welsh |
| Anu (2) | | - | Near Eastern Mythology |
| Albertina | | ahl-ber-TEE-nah (Italian, German) | Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese |