jape : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: jape	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for jape
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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 his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" Synonym(s): joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jape \Jape\, v. t. To mock; to trick. --Chaucer. I have not been putting a jape upon you. --Sir W. Scott. The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape. --W. Besant.