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
Aristotelis	-	Greek
Pitter	PIT-tər (Limburgish)	Frisian, Limburgish
DÓNal	-	Irish
Raleigh	['rɔ:li]
Sheffield	['ʃefi:ld]
Dagan	-	Near Eastern Mythology