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
Jodi	JO-dee	English
Alon	ah-LON	Hebrew
Claudia	['klɔ:djə]
Heli (2)	HE-lee	Finnish
Nerthus	-	Germanic Mythology
SiniŠA	-	Croatian, Serbian