joken.

Brit.

/dʒəʊk/, U.S.

/dʒoʊk/

Forms: Also 1600s joque, joc, 1700s joak.

Etymology: Appeared in second half of 17th cent., apparently originally in slang or colloquial use: compare joking n., quot. 1670 at sense a; apparently < Latin jocus jest, joke, sport: compare Italian gioco ‘game, play, sport, jeast’ (Florio).

1. Something said or done to excite laughter or amusement; a witticism, a jest; jesting, raillery; also, something that causes amusement, a ridiculous circumstance. practical joke, a trick or prank played upon some person usually in order to have a laugh at his expense. to cut, crack a joke; to turn a matter into a joke, etc.; a joke is a joke: a joke is not to be taken seriously (frequently with the implication that the matter referred to is too serious for jokes); joke over: the joke is finished (usually implying that the speaker is not amused by the words or behaviour of the person addressed).black joke: see the first element.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical

comedy1535

toy1542

jest1602

joke1670

comic1674

high comedy1707

humorous1753

comicality1796

funny1852

funniosity1871

hot sketch1917

pisser1918

riot1919

panic1921

cocasserie1934

yell1938

mess1952

crack-up1961

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke

gameOE

jape1377

bourda1387

mirthc1390

mowa1393

chapec1400

skauncec1440

sport?1449

popc1540

flirt1549

jest1551

merriment1576

shifta1577

facetiae1577

gig1590

pleasantry1594

lepidity1647

rallery1653

drollery1654

wit-crack1662

joco1663

pleasance1668

joke1670

jocunditya1734

quizzification1801

funniment1826

side-splitter1834

funniness1838

quizzery1841

jocularity1846

rib-tickler1855

jocosity1859

humorism1860

gag1863

gas1914

nifty1918

mirthquaker1921

rib1929

boffo1934

giggle1936

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [noun] > instance of

jest1578

jig1592

wilec1600

waggery1604

pleasance1668

quiz1795

practical joke1804

skite1804

skit1815

galliardise1842

leg-pull1893

rannygazoo1896

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax

pratOE

mowa1393

pageant?c1430

jimp?1572

prank1576

jest1578

jig1592

frump1593

trick1605

bilk1664

fun1699

plisky1706

humbug1750

hum1751

practical joke1751

marlock1763

quiz1795

practical joke1804

skite1804

hoax1808

skit1815

wrinkle1817

rusty1835

funny business1838

string1851

stringer1851

cod1862

mank1865

spoof1889

leg-pull1893

rannygazoo1896

shenanigan1926

gotcha1967

to throw a fastball1968

wind-up1984

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > a cause of laughter [phrase] > a joke is not to be taken seriously

a joke is a joke1836

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > serious matter [phrase]

a joke is a joke1836

joke over1961

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 34 To have the right knack of letting off a Joque, and of pleasing the Humsters.

1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 19 Coming off with so many dry joques and biting Repartees.

1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 15 Jocs, or Witticisms, Railleries and Drolleries, Quirks and Quillets.

1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 217 The simple joke that takes the shepherd's heart.

1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xviii. 294 A merry Joke upon a Stage.

1743 H. Fielding Ess. Conversat. in Misc. I. 173 Tossing Men out of their Chairs, tumbling them into Water, or any of those handicraft Jokes.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. liii. 210 I..should not forbear to cut a joke, were I upon the scaffold.

1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. i. 181 The best joke of all was, I did not know my master's name.

1790 J. Beattie Elem. Moral Sci. I. i. i. 117 The practice of turning every thing into joke and ridicule is a dangerous levity of imagination.

1804 M. Wilmot Let. 4 June in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 104 Such are the practical Jokes of the Great.

1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 356 Nane o' your practical jokes on strangers an' honest foks.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 123 A joke's a joke: and even practical jests are very capital in their way, if you can only get the other party to see the fun.

1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. xvii. 253 A joke is a joke, but that's no joke.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Lett. 14 Sept. He said solemnly, that he did not approve of practical jokes.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 186 All practical jokes do seem to be particularly foolish to those who suffer from them.

1892 Daily News 23 Feb. 4/8 Did she bear-fight and play practical jokes on the Lord Admiral?

1930 R. Gore-Browne By Way of Confession vi. 52 ‘Goes too far, 'e does!’ agreed an elder with a walrus mustache. ‘A joke's er joke.’ ‘And politics is politics!’ The retort came from a skinny-necked man.

1941 J. Cary House of Children 21 Harry murmured to me: ‘Look out for something—he's codding us.’ In fact, we had often had practical jokes played on us.

a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) i. 25 No, Mary, a joke is a joke, but—.

1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1153/2 Joke over! or when do we laugh?

1965 G. M. Wilson Devil's Skull ix. 112 ‘Telephone!’ He laughed again. ‘All right, joke over,’ said Lovick, nettled.

1967 C. Watson Lonelyheart 4122 xviii. 180 All right. Joke over. Now just what is it you think you're up to?

1972 Listener 2 Nov. 614/1 Midnight feasts, practical jokes and all the fun of the dormitory.

2. transferred. An object of or matter for joking; a laughing-stock.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule

hethinga1340

japing-stickc1380

laughing stock?1518

mocking-stock1526

laughing game1530

jesting-stock1535

mockage1535

derision1539

sporting stocka1556

game1562

May game1569

scoffing-stock1571

playing stock1579

make-play1592

flouting-stock1593

sport1598

bauchle1600

jest1606

butt1607

make-sport1611

mocking1611

mirtha1616

laughing stakea1630

scoff1640

gaud1650

blota1657

make-mirth1656

ridicule1678

flout1708

sturgeon1708

laugh1710

ludibry1722

jestee1760

make-game1762

joke1791

laughee1808

laughing post1810

target1842

jest-word1843

Aunt Sally1859

monument1866

punchline1978

1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship x. 45 I am the joke of the road wherever I go.

1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot xvi I shall be the standing joke of the mess-table, until some greater fool than myself can be found.

3. Something not earnest or serious; a jesting matter. no joke, a serious matter.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a joking matter

joke1726

jesta1732

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [noun] > that which is serious > a serious subject or remark

no laughing matter1549

gravity1609

no joke1809

solemnity1822

1726 J. Gay Let. to Swift 22 Oct. I wish, I could tell you, that the cutting of the tendons of two of his fingers was a joke; but it is really so.

1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. ii. 16 Link Towns to Towns with Avenues of Oak, Enclose whole Downs in Walls, 'tis all a joke! Inexorable Death shall level all.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. viii. 450 And indeed it was no joke.

1890 Guardian 29 Oct. 1711/1 An Irish faction fight is evidently no joke.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

joke book n.

1951 J. Steinbeck Burning Bright 23 His malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom.

1973 T. Tobin Lett. G. Ade 174 This rare pamphlet is in the Ford joke book tradition.

joke-capping n.

1883 T. Wright Unknown Public in 19th Cent. Opportunities for using them in the way of joke-capping.

joke-exchanging adj.

joke-loving adj.

joke shop n.

1947 K. P. Kempton Short Story 189 At a joke shop in town he had bought one of those spark-plug bombs with the idea of hitching it to a friend's jalopy.

1951 J. M. Fraser Psychol. iii. 28 Any ‘joke-shop’ will furnish examples of similar bits of apparatus designed to suggest a misleading total situation.

1967 V. C. Clinton-Baddeley Death's Bright Dart 122 Sinister in the silence gleamed the window of the Joke Shop.

1973 E. Page Fortnight by Sea ix. 101 One of those joke shops, you know, rubber poached eggs, exploding cigars.

joke-worthy adj.

1866 Ch. & State Rev. 17 Aug. 518 A very joke-worthy subject.

C2.

joke-fellow n. one with whom a joke is shared.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one with whom joke is shared

joke-fellow1822

1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie III. xxiv. 197 That English Lord and his Leddy mak him joke-fellow wi' themselves.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

jokev.

Brit.

/dʒəʊk/, U.S.

/dʒoʊk/

Etymology: < joke n., or < Latin jocārī to jest, to joke: compare Italian giocare , also joke n.

a. intransitive. To make jokes, to jest. [Joking is attributed to Milton in Warton's ed. of M.'s Poems 1785, p. 375; thence in Todd, and Globe ed. p. 575. But the actual reading ( Apol. Smect. i. (1642) 26) is jesting, which remains in all editions of the Prose Wks.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (intransitive)] > jest or joke

gameOE

jest1553

mow1559

cog1588

to break a jest1589

droll1654

joke1670

fool1673

crack a jest1721

crack a joke1753

pleasant1848

humorize1851

rot1896

kibitz1923

gag1942

1670 [implied in: J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 33 Punning, Quibling, and that which they call Joquing, and such other delicaces of Wit. (at joking n. a)].

1723 R. Steele Conscious Lovers iv. i Your Honour is pleas'd to joke with me.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 75 They quote Elijah for a precedent, who joked upon the four hundred priests of Baal.

1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 10 The guides, who had so reluctantly agreed to ascend, now merrily joked upon our novel situation.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 286 The benchers joke with the women passing by, and are joked with back again.

b. you are (or have got to be) joking, etc.: in phrases indicative of incredulity. Cf. also have v. 45.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > expressing disbelief [phrase]

do you mean to say (also to tell me)1763

you don't mean to say (also to tell me)1763

tell that to the marines1806

in a horn1847

you are (or have got to be) joking1907

tie that bull outside or to another ashcan1921

you could have fooled me1926

you wouldn't read about it1950

pull the other one (it's got bells on)1966

1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island ii. 36 Youre joking, Mr. Keegan: I'm sure yar.

1967 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1204/2 You're, he is, etc. joking, of course. A c.p. of modified optimism.

1967 N. Lucas C.I.D. xiii. 195 ‘Norman, would you be interested in meeting Charlie de Silva?’ ‘Probably,’ I replied, ‘but where do I have to go, Paris, New York...’ ‘You're joking. He's skint.’

1968 M. Stewart Wind off Small Isles i. 26 ‘If I've got to turn on sand—’ ‘You could reverse up.’ ‘You've got to be joking.’

1972 Times 29 Sept. 15/5 ‘We can consider ourselves fortunate in the character of the Prime Minister.’.. In the parlance of the day, you must be joking, mate.

2. transitive. To make the object of a joke or jokes; to poke fun at; to chaff, banter, rally.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)]

tauntc1530

railly1668

rally1672

banter1677

smoke1699

to get, take, or have a rise out of1703

joke1748

to run a rig1764

badinage1778

queer1778

quiz1787

to poke (one's) fun (at)1795

gammon1801

chaff1826

to run on ——1830

rig1841

trail1847

josh1852

jolly1874

chip1898

barrack1901

horse1901

jazz1927

to take the mike out ofa1935

to take the piss (out of)1945

to take the mickey (out of)1948

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lvii. 230 Mrs. Snapper..pretended to joke me upon my passion for Narcissa.

1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) 282 I often joked them with the text which is applied to their order.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 28 Sir Joseph Banks joked her about Otoroo.

1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xix. 99 It is my wish never to be joked upon subjects of this kind.

1838 Princess Elizabeth Let. 25 Aug. (1898) 344 She loves to joke others.

3. transitive. To get or put (out or away) by joking.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (transitive)] > utter a jest or joke > drive out by jesting

out-jest1608

joke1863

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters x. 268 A fellow who will joke and laugh the money out of your pocket.

1891 Harper's Mag. July 194/1 The question was joked away between them.

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b. To utter as a joke, or in a joking manner. Frequently with direct speech or clause as object.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > lack of seriousness > act or speak with lack of seriousness [verb (transitive)]

joke1863

1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray II. xiv. 281 The farmer had come in and had joked his joke, and Mrs. Sturt had clacked over them as though they were a brood of chickens of her own hatching.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. vi. 155 ‘I've been a lot of things in my days,’ said Max with pride. ‘So I've heard,’ joked Maud.

1917 R. Frost Let. 13 Nov. (1972) 17 I wish I thought Miss Waite was joking the joke I joke when she said ‘You have some hope of yourself then?’

1962 N. Freeling Love in Amsterdam i. 15 ‘ Who's dead?’ he joked.

1972 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 3 Nov. 1/5 The candidate's national political director..joked that the remark had been rather natural for a Democratic nominee.

1986 J. Nagenda Seasons of T. Tebo i. vi. 33 Baby and Jane had often joked, romantically, that if anything happened to them they would go to the coast.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	joke
释义	joken. Brit. /dʒəʊk/, U.S. /dʒoʊk/ Forms: Also 1600s joque, joc, 1700s joak. Etymology: Appeared in second half of 17th cent., apparently originally in slang or colloquial use: compare joking n., quot. 1670 at sense a; apparently < Latin jocus jest, joke, sport: compare Italian gioco ‘game, play, sport, jeast’ (Florio). 1. Something said or done to excite laughter or amusement; a witticism, a jest; jesting, raillery; also, something that causes amusement, a ridiculous circumstance. practical joke, a trick or prank played upon some person usually in order to have a laugh at his expense. to cut, crack a joke; to turn a matter into a joke, etc.; a joke is a joke: a joke is not to be taken seriously (frequently with the implication that the matter referred to is too serious for jokes); joke over: the joke is finished (usually implying that the speaker is not amused by the words or behaviour of the person addressed).black joke: see the first element. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical comedy1535 toy1542 jest1602 joke1670 comic1674 high comedy1707 humorous1753 comicality1796 funny1852 funniosity1871 hot sketch1917 pisser1918 riot1919 panic1921 cocasserie1934 yell1938 mess1952 crack-up1961 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke gameOE jape1377 bourda1387 mirthc1390 mowa1393 chapec1400 skauncec1440 sport?1449 popc1540 flirt1549 jest1551 merriment1576 shifta1577 facetiae1577 gig1590 pleasantry1594 lepidity1647 rallery1653 drollery1654 wit-crack1662 joco1663 pleasance1668 joke1670 jocunditya1734 quizzification1801 funniment1826 side-splitter1834 funniness1838 quizzery1841 jocularity1846 rib-tickler1855 jocosity1859 humorism1860 gag1863 gas1914 nifty1918 mirthquaker1921 rib1929 boffo1934 giggle1936 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [noun] > instance of jest1578 jig1592 wilec1600 waggery1604 pleasance1668 quiz1795 practical joke1804 skite1804 skit1815 galliardise1842 leg-pull1893 rannygazoo1896 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax pratOE mowa1393 pageant?c1430 jimp?1572 prank1576 jest1578 jig1592 frump1593 trick1605 bilk1664 fun1699 plisky1706 humbug1750 hum1751 practical joke1751 marlock1763 quiz1795 practical joke1804 skite1804 hoax1808 skit1815 wrinkle1817 rusty1835 funny business1838 string1851 stringer1851 cod1862 mank1865 spoof1889 leg-pull1893 rannygazoo1896 shenanigan1926 gotcha1967 to throw a fastball1968 wind-up1984 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > a cause of laughter [phrase] > a joke is not to be taken seriously a joke is a joke1836 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > serious matter [phrase] a joke is a joke1836 joke over1961 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 34 To have the right knack of letting off a Joque, and of pleasing the Humsters. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 19 Coming off with so many dry joques and biting Repartees. 1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 15 Jocs, or Witticisms, Railleries and Drolleries, Quirks and Quillets. 1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 217 The simple joke that takes the shepherd's heart. 1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xviii. 294 A merry Joke upon a Stage. 1743 H. Fielding Ess. Conversat. in Misc. I. 173 Tossing Men out of their Chairs, tumbling them into Water, or any of those handicraft Jokes. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. liii. 210 I..should not forbear to cut a joke, were I upon the scaffold. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. i. 181 The best joke of all was, I did not know my master's name. 1790 J. Beattie Elem. Moral Sci. I. i. i. 117 The practice of turning every thing into joke and ridicule is a dangerous levity of imagination. 1804 M. Wilmot Let. 4 June in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 104 Such are the practical Jokes of the Great. 1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 356 Nane o' your practical jokes on strangers an' honest foks. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 123 A joke's a joke: and even practical jests are very capital in their way, if you can only get the other party to see the fun. 1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. xvii. 253 A joke is a joke, but that's no joke. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Lett. 14 Sept. He said solemnly, that he did not approve of practical jokes. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 186 All practical jokes do seem to be particularly foolish to those who suffer from them. 1892 Daily News 23 Feb. 4/8 Did she bear-fight and play practical jokes on the Lord Admiral? 1930 R. Gore-Browne By Way of Confession vi. 52 ‘Goes too far, 'e does!’ agreed an elder with a walrus mustache. ‘A joke's er joke.’ ‘And politics is politics!’ The retort came from a skinny-necked man. 1941 J. Cary House of Children 21 Harry murmured to me: ‘Look out for something—he's codding us.’ In fact, we had often had practical jokes played on us. a1953 E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) i. 25 No, Mary, a joke is a joke, but—. 1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1153/2 Joke over! or when do we laugh? 1965 G. M. Wilson Devil's Skull ix. 112 ‘Telephone!’ He laughed again. ‘All right, joke over,’ said Lovick, nettled. 1967 C. Watson Lonelyheart 4122 xviii. 180 All right. Joke over. Now just what is it you think you're up to? 1972 Listener 2 Nov. 614/1 Midnight feasts, practical jokes and all the fun of the dormitory. 2. transferred. An object of or matter for joking; a laughing-stock. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule hethinga1340 japing-stickc1380 laughing stock?1518 mocking-stock1526 laughing game1530 jesting-stock1535 mockage1535 derision1539 sporting stocka1556 game1562 May game1569 scoffing-stock1571 playing stock1579 make-play1592 flouting-stock1593 sport1598 bauchle1600 jest1606 butt1607 make-sport1611 mocking1611 mirtha1616 laughing stakea1630 scoff1640 gaud1650 blota1657 make-mirth1656 ridicule1678 flout1708 sturgeon1708 laugh1710 ludibry1722 jestee1760 make-game1762 joke1791 laughee1808 laughing post1810 target1842 jest-word1843 Aunt Sally1859 monument1866 punchline1978 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship x. 45 I am the joke of the road wherever I go. 1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot xvi I shall be the standing joke of the mess-table, until some greater fool than myself can be found. 3. Something not earnest or serious; a jesting matter. no joke, a serious matter. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a joking matter joke1726 jesta1732 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > seriousness or solemnity > [noun] > that which is serious > a serious subject or remark no laughing matter1549 gravity1609 no joke1809 solemnity1822 1726 J. Gay Let. to Swift 22 Oct. I wish, I could tell you, that the cutting of the tendons of two of his fingers was a joke; but it is really so. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. ii. 16 Link Towns to Towns with Avenues of Oak, Enclose whole Downs in Walls, 'tis all a joke! Inexorable Death shall level all. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. viii. 450 And indeed it was no joke. 1890 Guardian 29 Oct. 1711/1 An Irish faction fight is evidently no joke. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. joke book n. Π 1951 J. Steinbeck Burning Bright 23 His malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom. 1973 T. Tobin Lett. G. Ade 174 This rare pamphlet is in the Ford joke book tradition. joke-capping n. Π 1883 T. Wright Unknown Public in 19th Cent. Opportunities for using them in the way of joke-capping. b. joke-exchanging adj. joke-loving adj. joke shop n. Π 1947 K. P. Kempton Short Story 189 At a joke shop in town he had bought one of those spark-plug bombs with the idea of hitching it to a friend's jalopy. 1951 J. M. Fraser Psychol. iii. 28 Any ‘joke-shop’ will furnish examples of similar bits of apparatus designed to suggest a misleading total situation. 1967 V. C. Clinton-Baddeley Death's Bright Dart 122 Sinister in the silence gleamed the window of the Joke Shop. 1973 E. Page Fortnight by Sea ix. 101 One of those joke shops, you know, rubber poached eggs, exploding cigars. joke-worthy adj. Π 1866 Ch. & State Rev. 17 Aug. 518 A very joke-worthy subject. C2. joke-fellow n. one with whom a joke is shared. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one with whom joke is shared joke-fellow1822 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie III. xxiv. 197 That English Lord and his Leddy mak him joke-fellow wi' themselves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). jokev. Brit. /dʒəʊk/, U.S. /dʒoʊk/ Etymology: < joke n., or < Latin jocārī to jest, to joke: compare Italian giocare , also joke n. 1. a. intransitive. To make jokes, to jest. [Joking is attributed to Milton in Warton's ed. of M.'s Poems 1785, p. 375; thence in Todd, and Globe ed. p. 575. But the actual reading ( Apol. Smect. i. (1642) 26) is jesting, which remains in all editions of the Prose Wks.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (intransitive)] > jest or joke gameOE jest1553 mow1559 cog1588 to break a jest1589 droll1654 joke1670 fool1673 crack a jest1721 crack a joke1753 pleasant1848 humorize1851 rot1896 kibitz1923 gag1942 1670 [implied in: J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 33 Punning, Quibling, and that which they call Joquing, and such other delicaces of Wit. (at joking n. a)]. 1723 R. Steele Conscious Lovers iv. i Your Honour is pleas'd to joke with me. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 75 They quote Elijah for a precedent, who joked upon the four hundred priests of Baal. 1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 10 The guides, who had so reluctantly agreed to ascend, now merrily joked upon our novel situation. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 286 The benchers joke with the women passing by, and are joked with back again. b. you are (or have got to be) joking, etc.: in phrases indicative of incredulity. Cf. also have v. 45. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > expressing disbelief [phrase] do you mean to say (also to tell me)1763 you don't mean to say (also to tell me)1763 tell that to the marines1806 in a horn1847 you are (or have got to be) joking1907 tie that bull outside or to another ashcan1921 you could have fooled me1926 you wouldn't read about it1950 pull the other one (it's got bells on)1966 1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island ii. 36 Youre joking, Mr. Keegan: I'm sure yar. 1967 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1204/2 You're, he is, etc. joking, of course. A c.p. of modified optimism. 1967 N. Lucas C.I.D. xiii. 195 ‘Norman, would you be interested in meeting Charlie de Silva?’ ‘Probably,’ I replied, ‘but where do I have to go, Paris, New York...’ ‘You're joking. He's skint.’ 1968 M. Stewart Wind off Small Isles i. 26 ‘If I've got to turn on sand—’ ‘You could reverse up.’ ‘You've got to be joking.’ 1972 Times 29 Sept. 15/5 ‘We can consider ourselves fortunate in the character of the Prime Minister.’.. In the parlance of the day, you must be joking, mate. 2. transitive. To make the object of a joke or jokes; to poke fun at; to chaff, banter, rally. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] tauntc1530 railly1668 rally1672 banter1677 smoke1699 to get, take, or have a rise out of1703 joke1748 to run a rig1764 badinage1778 queer1778 quiz1787 to poke (one's) fun (at)1795 gammon1801 chaff1826 to run on ——1830 rig1841 trail1847 josh1852 jolly1874 chip1898 barrack1901 horse1901 jazz1927 to take the mike out ofa1935 to take the piss (out of)1945 to take the mickey (out of)1948 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lvii. 230 Mrs. Snapper..pretended to joke me upon my passion for Narcissa. 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) 282 I often joked them with the text which is applied to their order. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 28 Sir Joseph Banks joked her about Otoroo. 1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xix. 99 It is my wish never to be joked upon subjects of this kind. 1838 Princess Elizabeth Let. 25 Aug. (1898) 344 She loves to joke others. 3. transitive. To get or put (out or away) by joking. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (transitive)] > utter a jest or joke > drive out by jesting out-jest1608 joke1863 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters x. 268 A fellow who will joke and laugh the money out of your pocket. 1891 Harper's Mag. July 194/1 The question was joked away between them. Draft additions 1997 b. To utter as a joke, or in a joking manner. Frequently with direct speech or clause as object. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > lack of seriousness > act or speak with lack of seriousness [verb (transitive)] joke1863 1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray II. xiv. 281 The farmer had come in and had joked his joke, and Mrs. Sturt had clacked over them as though they were a brood of chickens of her own hatching. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. vi. 155 ‘I've been a lot of things in my days,’ said Max with pride. ‘So I've heard,’ joked Maud. 1917 R. Frost Let. 13 Nov. (1972) 17 I wish I thought Miss Waite was joking the joke I joke when she said ‘You have some hope of yourself then?’ 1962 N. Freeling Love in Amsterdam i. 15 ‘ Who's dead?’ he joked. 1972 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 3 Nov. 1/5 The candidate's national political director..joked that the remark had been rather natural for a Democratic nominee. 1986 J. Nagenda Seasons of T. Tebo i. vi. 33 Baby and Jane had often joked, romantically, that if anything happened to them they would go to the coast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1670v.1670
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