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▪ I. joke, n.|dʒəʊk|
Also 7 joque, joc, 8 joak.
[Appeared in second half of 17th c., app. originally in slang or colloquial use: cf. joking vbl. n., quot. 1670; app. ad. L. joc-us jest, joke, sport: cf. It. gioco ‘game, play, sport, jeast’ (Florio).]
1. a. 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. Phr. 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 (freq. with the implication that the matter referred to is too serious for jokes); joke over: the joke is finished (usu. implying that the speaker is not amused by the words or behaviour of the person addressed).
1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 34 To have the right knack of letting off a joque, and of pleasing the humsters. 1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 19 Coming off with so many dry joques and biting Repartees. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Ep. to Pordage's Myst. Div. 15 Jocs, or Witticisms, Railleries and Drolleries, Quirks and Quillets. 1726–46Thomson Winter 623 The simple joke that takes the shepherd's heart. 1741Fielding Ess., Conversat., Tossing men out of their chairs, tumbling them into water, or any of those handicraft jokes. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. xviii. §17 A merry joak upon the stage. 1748Richardson Clarissa Wks. 1883 VII. 410, I..should not forbear to cut a joke, were I upon a scaffold. 1749Smollett Gil Blas iii. i. ⁋5 The best joke of all was, I did not know my master's name. 1790Beattie Moral Sc. i. i. §7 The practice of turning every thing into joke and ridicule is a dangerous levity of imagination. 1804M. Wilmot Let. 4 June in Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 104 Such are the practical Jokes of the Great. 1824J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 356 Nane o' your practical jokes on strangers an' honest foks. 1837Dickens Sk. 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. 1838T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. xvii. 253 A joke is a joke, but that's no joke. 1849[see practical a. 1]. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. I. 186 All practical jokes do seem to be particularly foolish to those who suffer from them. 1892[see bear-fight]. 1930R. 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[see cod v.3]. a1953E. O'Neill Long Day's Journey (1956) i. 25 No, Mary, a joke is a joke, but—. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1153/2 Joke over! or when do we laugh? 1965G. M. Wilson Devil's Skull ix. 112 ‘Telephone!’ He laughed again. ‘All right, joke over,’ said Lovick, nettled. 1967C. Watson Lonelyheart 4122 xviii. 180 All right. Joke over. Now just what is it you think you're up to? 1972Listener 2 Nov. 614/1 Midnight feasts, practical jokes and all the fun of the dormitory.
b. black joke (see quot. 1796). Also coal-black joke. slang.
1729C. Coffey Beggar's Wedding i. iv. 17 (heading) Hunter with Musick. Air X. Coal-black Joak. c1734in Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 463 His black Jokes or smutty Songs. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. II. liii. 186 He whistled one part and hummed another of Black Joke. 1796Grose Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 3) Black Joke, a popular tune to a song, having for the burden, ‘Her black joke and belly so white’: figuratively the black joke signifies the monosyllable. 1808S. W. Ryley Itinerant I. iv. 91 A blind fiddler, mounted on a three footed stool, rasped away very seriously the black Joke. c1835Song, ‘Oxford Freshman’, Next night I got drunker than ever, And sang the Black Joke at his [my Tutor's] door. 1970P. O'Brian Master & Commander ix. 252 He decided..to sit it out until the drum beat to quarters,..humming the Black Joke.
2. transf. An object of or matter for joking; a laughing-stock.
1791‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsem. x. (1809) 109, I am the joke of the road wherever I go. 1823J. 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.
1726Gay 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. 1737Pope Hor. Ep. ii. ii. 261 Link towns to towns with avenues of oak, Enclose whole downs in walls, 'tis all a joke! Inexorable Death shall level all. 1809Malkin Gil Blas ix. viii. ⁋8 And indeed it was no joke. 1890Guardian 29 Oct. 1711/1 An Irish faction fight is evidently no joke.
4. attrib. and Comb., as joke book, joke-capping; joke-exchanging, joke-loving, joke shop, joke-worthy adjs.; joke-fellow, one with whom a joke is shared.
1951J. Steinbeck Burning Bright 23 His malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom. 1973T. Tobin Lett. of George Ade 174 This rare pamphlet is in the Ford joke book tradition.
1883T. Wright Unknown Public in 19th Cent., Opportunities for using them in the way of joke-capping.
1821Galt Sir A. Wylie III. xxiv. 197 That English Lord and his Leddy mak him joke-fellow wi' themselves.
1947K. 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. 1951J. M. Fraser Psychol. iii. 28 Any ‘joke-shop’ will furnish examples of similar bits of apparatus designed to suggest a misleading total situation. 1967V. C. Clinton-Baddeley Death's Bright Dart 122 Sinister in the silence gleamed the window of the Joke Shop. 1973E. Page Fortnight by Sea ix. 101 One of those joke shops, you know, rubber poached eggs, exploding cigars.
1866Ch. & State Rev. 17 Aug. 518 A very joke-worthy subject.
▪ II. joke, v.|dʒəʊk|
[f. joke n., or ad. L. jocārī to jest, to joke: cf. It. giocare, also joke n.]
1. a. intr. 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 edd. of the Prose Wks.] 1670[see joking vbl. n.]. 1723Steele Consc. Lovers iv. i, Your Honour is pleas'd to joke with me. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 337 They quote Elijah for a precedent, who joked upon the four hundred priests of Baal. 1823F. Clissold Ascent Mt. Blanc 10 The guides, who had so reluctantly agreed to ascend, now merrily joked upon our novel situation. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. 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. 7 d.
1907G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island ii. 36 Youre joking, Mr. Keegan: I'm sure yar. 1967Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1204/2 You're, he is, etc. joking, of course. A c.p. of modified optimism. 1967N. 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.’ 1968M. 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.’ 1972Times 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. trans. To make the object of a joke or jokes; to poke fun at; to chaff, banter, rally.
1748Smollett Rod. Rand. lvii, Miss Snapper..pretended to joke me upon my passion for Narcissa. 1768Boswell Corsica (ed. 2) 282, I often joked them with the text which is applied to their order. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 28 Sir Joseph Banks joked her about Otoroo. 1838Princess Elizabeth in Lett. (1898) 344 She loves to joke others. a1847Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor III. xix. 100 It is my wish never to be joked upon subjects of this kind.
3. trans. To get or put (out or away) by joking.
1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. x. 268 A fellow who will joke and laugh the money out of your pocket. 1891Harper's Mag. July 194/1 The question was joked away between them.
Add:[2.] b. To utter as a joke, or in a joking manner. Freq. with direct speech or clause as obj.
1863Trollope Rachel Ray III. 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. a1911D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox II. vi. 155 ‘I've been a lot of things in my day,’ said Max with pride. ‘So I've heard,’ joked Maud. 1917R. 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?’ 1962N. Freeling Love in Amsterdam i. 15 ‘ Who's dead?’ he joked. 1972Fairbanks (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. 1986J. 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.
▪ III. joke
variant of jouk v.1 Obs. |