jape

/dʤeip/

Thân thiện

He shared a lighthearted jape with his colleagues around the water cooler.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A joke or prank; a humorous act or remark intended to cause amusement or laughter. A "jape" is a playful, often mischievous, jest or trick. It typically implies lighthearted humor rather than a formal or elaborate joke.

Usage

• As a noun: "Jape" is a somewhat literary or old-fashioned word for a joke or prank. It is used to describe a witty remark or a playful trick.
  • His witty jape made everyone at the dinner table laugh.
  • The children's jape involved hiding the teacher's chalk.

Advanced Usage

• "To perpetrate a jape": to carry out a joke or prank.
  • The students were known to perpetrate harmless japes on April Fools' Day.
• "A merry jape": a cheerful or amusing joke.
  • The play was full of merry japes and clever dialogue.

Variants and Related Words

• Japery (n): The act of jesting or joking; playful behavior.
  • The atmosphere was one of good-natured japery.
• Japer (n): (Archaic) A person who jests or jokes.
  • The court jester was the chief japer.

Synonyms

• Joke: A thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter.
• Gag: A joke or an amusing story or scene.
• Prank: A practical joke or mischievous act.
• Quip: A witty remark.
• Jest: A joke or witty remark.

Idioms and Phrases

• "The jape is on someone": Used to indicate that a joke or trick has backfired on the person who intended it for another.
  • He tried to trip me, but he fell instead—the jape was on him!

Học thuật

Noun

1. 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 his own jest
   • even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point

Từ đồng nghĩa

• joke
• gag
• laugh
• jest