ADV [ADVERB with verb]戏弄地;开玩笑地;可笑地 If you laughingly refer to something with a particular name or description, the description is not appropriate and you think that this is either amusing or annoying. 戏弄地;开玩笑地;可笑地
I spent much of what I laughingly call 'the holidays' working through 621 pages of typescript.
我把我戏称为“假日”的大部分时间都花在那621页的打字稿上了。
What I laughingly refer to as my garden is a corner lot by our postage-stamp size house.