Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To trick; deceive.
  • To laugh at; make a mock of.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To jape; to laugh at; to deceive.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, rare To play a trick on; trick or befool.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English bejapen, bijapen, equivalent to be- +‎ jape. Cognate with Scots bejaip ("to befool").

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