cosmic joker
English
editEtymology
editA term attributed to author Charles Fort. The exact term does not appear in Fort's writings, but related terms and concepts certainly do, such that later writers acknowledge and attribute Fort for the phrase.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcosmic joker (plural cosmic jokers)
- A higher power who is responsible for various anomalous phenomena on Earth, and whose manifestations are of a perverse and black-humored nature.