a. Mocking, but gently and with affection -- as between friends or lovers. A needed word, describing as it does a particular quality for which there is no other satisfactory adjective. The attitude of the author's wife to his nikhedonia over the present book.
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Definitions: from The Superior Person's Book of Words, Copyright © 1979, 1982 Peter Bowler