Found 2 items, similar to jape.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: jape
jape
n : a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter;
“he told a very funny joke”;
“he knows a million gags”;
“thanks for the laugh”;
“he laughed unpleasantly at
hisown jest”;
“even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to
have some ascertainable point” [syn:
joke,
gag,
laugh,
jest]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Jape
Jape
\Jape\, v. i. [Prob. from the same source as gab,
influenced by F. japper to yelp. See
Gab to deceive.]
To jest; to play tricks; to jeer. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Jape
\Jape\, v. t.
To mock; to trick. --Chaucer.
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I have not been putting a jape upon you. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has
imparted his latest merry jape. --W. Besant.
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