jape

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He considered that he was level with me for my Peterborough jail-jape, and was much cheered It took the best part of September to get up-stream and back to Samarra.

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  1. intransitive verb To joke or quip.
  2. transitive verb To make sport of.
  3. noun A joke or quip.

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  • Most famously, when fellow officers coaxed a pair of ponies into his room for a jape, Burnaby simply picked them up-one under each arm-and carried them downstairs "as if they had been cats."
  • Had a proper match with the AVForumers today and it was a real jape, its the best FPS I've played on a console for multiplayer. —  Eurogamer
  • The jape has been spread on the Internet since at least 2001, variously targeting redheads, blondes, Valley girls, and Scientologists. —  New Urban Legends
  • I hope all my readers had a happy November 9 yesterday. this kind of jolly jape (and c'mon, it is) now shows a comments ratio of one grumpy po-faced —  Pigdogfucker
  • He considered that he was level with me for my Peterborough jail-jape, and was much cheered It took the best part of September to get up-stream and back to Samarra. —  The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English japen, probably from Old French japer, to yap, chatter, nag, of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English japen, from Old French japer, japper, French japper = Provencal japar, trifle, jest, play a trick, transitive trick, impose upon; origin uncertain.
  2. from Middle English jape, from Old French jape, jappe, French Jappe = Provencal jap, jaup; from the verb.
 

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