japen.
/dʒeɪp/, U.S. /dʒeɪp/ a. A trick, a device to deceive or cheat. Obsolete since c1515, but used by Scott.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception
wrenchc888
swikec893
braida1000
craftOE
wile1154
crookc1175
trokingc1175
guile?c1225
hocket1276
blink1303
errorc1320
guileryc1330
sleightc1340
knackc1369
deceitc1380
japec1380
gaudc1386
syllogism1387
mazec1390
mowa1393
train?a1400
trantc1400
abusionc1405
creekc1405
trickc1412
trayc1430
lirtc1440
quaint?a1450
touch1481
pawka1522
false point?1528
practice1533
crink1534
flim-flamc1538
bobc1540
fetcha1547
abuse1551
block1553
wrinklec1555
far-fetch?a1562
blirre1570
slampant1577
ruse1581
forgery1582
crank1588
plait1589
crossbite1591
cozenage1592
lock1598
quiblin1605
foist1607
junt1608
firk1611
overreach?1615
fob1622
ludification1623
knick-knacka1625
flam1632
dodge1638
gimcrack1639
fourbe1654
juggle1664
strategy1672
jilt1683
disingenuity1691
fun1699
jugglementa1708
spring1753
shavie1767
rig?1775
deception1794
Yorkshire bite1795
fakement1811
fake1829
practical1833
deceptivity1843
tread-behind1844
fly1861
schlenter1864
Sinonism1864
racket1869
have1885
ficelle1890
wheeze1903
fast one1912
roughie1914
spun-yarn trick1916
fastie1931
phoney baloney1933
fake-out1955
okey-doke1964
mind-fuck1971
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 12 Ȝif þei maken wyues and oþer wymmen hure sustris bi lettris of fraternite or oþere iapes.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 864 & ȝe ar iolyf gentylmen your iapes ar ille.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 57 Did not Ionas in Iude suche Iape sum-whyle?
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 705 With feyned flaterye and Iapes He made the person and the peple his apes.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. lvii. 99/1 The fende sholde dysceyue hym by Illusions & by Iapes.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 738 in Shorter Poems (1967) 52 Sore I dred me for sum othyr Iape [1579 Edinb. Iaip].
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix*. 288 Subjecting yourself..to the japes and mockeries of evil spirits.
ΚΠ
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. v. [iv.] 65 Turnand quhelis thai set in, by and by, Vnder the feit of this ilk bisnyng iaip [sc. the wooden horse].
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy iii. 890 Iason for all þo Iapes hade nere his ioy lost, Hade his licour ben to laite.
?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer i, in Poems sig. N2 To haue ane hole he had grit hast, Zit in the wood thair was nane wast, To harberie that iaip.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 272 & en-gendered on hem Ieauntez with her Iapez ille.
?a1600 I. T. Grim the Collier (1662) Prol. Heard you not never how an actor's wife..Coming in's [sc. the devil's] way did chance to get a jape.
2. A device to amuse; a merry or idle tale; a jest, joke, gibe. Obsolete generally before 1600 (not used by Spenser, Shakespeare, or their contemporaries, and recorded in 17th cent. dictionaries as an ‘Old Word’); revived in 19th cent. in literary use by Lamb, Barham, etc. See note to the verb.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun] > instance of
hoker-wordOE
gabc1225
scornc1275
jape1377
bourda1387
gaudc1440
knack1513
scoffing1530
gleekc1540
jest1548
to have a fling at?1550
snack?1554
boba1566
taunta1566
gird1566
flim-flam-flirt1573
gibe1573
scoff1573
flouting-stock1593
mycterism1593
flirt1613
fleera1616
scomma1620
jeer1631
snouchc1780
brocard1837
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
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 144 Þanne lowgh lyf..and helde holynesse a iape and hendenesse a wastour.
c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Prol. & Tale 66 I preche so as ye han herd bifoore, And telle an hundred false Iapes moore.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 21911 To here. how rauland faȝt & oliuere. or of oþer iapis to roun.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) v. 17 Þai broght him furth..and made dance before þam and make iapes.
c1400 Promptorium Parvulorum 257/1 Iape, nuga, frivolum, scur(r)ilitas.
?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. d.iii The saynges of wysemen they repute for Iapes & very fables.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxv. f. cxlvii He set all at noughte & made of it a scoffe or a iape.
1611 R. Badley in T. Coryate Crudities sig. kv A crue of Apes, Sporting themselues with their conceited Iapes About a Pedler that lay snorting by.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) App. Jape (old word), a jest, jeer or sport.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 20 All hail, sweet son o' Nox! Father o' daffin, jaips, and jokes!
1830 C. Lamb To Louisa M—— in Album Verses v The scoff, the banter, and the jape, And antics of my gamesome Ape.
1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 134 The bystanders well-pleased with the jape put upon him.
1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men I. viii. 189 The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > [noun]
beaubeletc1205
juelet1340
trifle1375
geara1400
gaudc1430
jape1436
playing thing1440
baublea1475
playock1508
gewgawa1529
toy?1565
gay1577
gambol1579
ruggle1598
frolic1650
playthinga1674
wally1692
sporting-piece1740
playferea1774
play material1897
play-pretty1905
1436 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 172 The grete galees of Venees..Be wel laden wyth..Apes and iapes, and marmusettes taylede, Nifles, trifles, that litelle have availede.
1475 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 806 Hec nuga, a chape. Hic nugator, chaper.
1488 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) II. 391 Item twa tuthpikis of gold, with a chenye,..ane hert of gold, with uther small Iapis.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Div Fol. In faythe I wolde thou had a marmosete. Fan. Cockes harte I loue suche Iapes.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiii. 134 God wait gif ȝe be Iaips to hald in stoir, Or bony byrdis to keip in to ane Cage.
Compounds
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective] > ridiculous
gamelyOE
jape-worthyc1374
foolisha1500
ridiculous1533
ludibrious1570
laughable1600
mockablea1616
laughworthy1616
ludicral1656
derisible1657
absurd1716
grotesque1747
tomfool1762
irrisible1767
ludicrous1782
deridable1804
saugrenu1876
screwy1887
derisive1896
josh1908
nutty1915
derisory1923
dingbat1935
bonkers1961
joky1964
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) v. pr. iii. 122 What difference is ther bytwixe the prescience and thilke Iape~worthi dyuynenge of tyresye the dyuynor.
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japev.
/dʒeɪp/, U.S. /dʒeɪp/ΘΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)]
jape1362
bejape1377
play1562
jugglea1592
dally1595
trick1595
bore1602
jadea1616
to fool off1631
top1663
whiska1669
hocus1675
to put a sham upon1677
sham1677
fun?1685
to put upon ——1687
rig1732
humbug1750
hum1751
to run a rig1764
hocus-pocus1774
cram1794
hoax1796
kid1811
string1819
to play off1821
skylark1823
frisk1825
stuff1844
lark1848
kiddy1851
soap1857
to play it (on)1864
spoof1889
to slip (something) over (on)1912
cod1941
to pull a person's chain1975
game1996
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 65 Fader of falsness..Iudas he Iapede with þe Iewes seluer.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 871 Thus hath he iaped thee ful many a yeer And thow hast maked hym thy chief Squyer.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 186 Y wyl bewar..That of no Fowlar y wil no more be Iaped.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 3459 He hath but I-Iapid vs, & scornyd her-to-fore.
1463 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 288 I wold not he shuld jape hyr, for she menythe good feythe, and yf he wolle not have hyr late me wete in hast.
a. To seduce (a woman); to know carnally. Obsolete.
ΘΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with > specifically of a man
jape1382
overliec1400
swivec1405
foilc1440
overlay?a1475
bed1548
possess1592
knock1598
to get one's leg over1599
enjoy1602
poke1602
thrum1611
topa1616
riga1625
swingea1640
jerk1650
night-work1654
wimble1656
roger1699
ruta1706
tail1778
to touch up1785
to get into ——c1890
root1922
to knock up1934
lay1934
pump1937
prong1942
nail1948
to slip (someone) a length1949
to knock off1953
thread1958
stuff1960
tup1970
nut1971
pussy1973
service1973
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > deprive of chastity [verb (transitive)] > seduce
sardc950
jape1382
transvertc1450
seducec1560
debauch1711
betray1766
to do over1823
make1910
to race off1965
1382 Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 270 Sle thi fadre, and iape thi modre, and thai wyl the assoile.
a1400–50 Alexander 4415 Iupitir a Iettoure þat Iapid many ladis.
?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. B.ii He iaped my wyfe and made me cukolde.
1576 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 312 He had rather that any man should gape his owne wif then kysse Jane Slaiter mowthe.
ΘΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
a1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) xii. 118 Goddys childe! thou lyist, in fay: God dede nevyr jape so with may.
1572 G. Gascoigne Councell to Withipoll in Wks. (1587) 151 First in thy jorney iape not overmuch. What laughest thou Bat bycause I write so plaine?..Methinks plaine dealing biddeth me to cast Thys bone at first amid my doggrell rime.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 212 As one that would say to a young woman, I pray you let me iape with you, which in deed is no more but let me sport with you.
ΘΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)]
teleeOE
laughOE
bismerc1000
heascenc1000
hethec1175
scornc1175
hokera1225
betell?c1225
scorn?c1225
forhushc1275
to make scorn at, toc1320
boba1382
bemow1388
lakea1400
bobby14..
triflea1450
japec1450
mock?c1450
mowc1485
to make (a) mock at?a1500
to make mocks at?a1500
scrip?a1513
illude1516
delude1526
deride1530
louta1547
to toy with ——1549–62
flout1551
skirp1568
knack1570
to fart against1574
frump1577
bourd1593
geck?a1600
scout1605
subsannate1606
railly1612
explode1618
subsannea1620
dor1655
monkeya1658
to make an ass of (someone)1680
ridicule1680
banter1682
to run one's rig upon1735
fun1811
to get the run upon1843
play1891
to poke mullock at1901
razz1918
flaunt1923
to get (or give) the razoo1926
to bust (a person's) chops1953
wolf1966
pimp1968
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 191 But þou iapyst god & scornyst him.
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 118 Xristis visage hidde was dispisid Japed and all bespitted.
a1730 E. Fenton Cook's Ed. Sel. Brit. Poets (1796) XXXVII. 46 Urge not the wags to sneer and jape us.
1822 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Wasps in tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 179 The sons of Pronapus..Oft jape us.
4. intransitive. To say or do something in jest or mockery; to jest, joke, jeer; to make game, make fun, sport. Obsolete c1550; revived in 19th cent.
ΘΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (intransitive)]
bourd1303
japec1374
rail?1507
gaud1532
mow1559
railly1612
rally1625
banter1660
badiner1697
chaffa1845
josh1845
persiflate1850
to poke (the) borak1882
kibitz1923
to take the mickey (out of)1948
mickey-take1959
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 262 (318) Repentynge hym þat he hadde euere y-Iaped Of loues folk.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 1115 (1164) And he gan at hym self to Iape faste.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) vi. 18 There was a grete noyse, and the men and wymmen iaped to geder eche with other.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iv. 66 I trowe ye do but iape.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxxxiii. 324 Howe is it that my lorde the prince iapeth and mocketh thus with me?
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 589/2 I dyd but jape with hym, and he toke it in good ernest.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Iape or iest.
1858 W. Morris Sir P. Harpdon's End 68 What have I done that he should jape at me?
1879 J. R. Green Readings Eng. Hist. xxvii. 142 The Host in the Tales japes at him for his lonely, abstracted air.
Derivatives
ˈjaping n. and adj.
ΘΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun] > action of
japingc1380
jesting1526
raillying1612
banteringa1672
rallying1673
smoking1781
ragging1788
quizzing1795
chaffing1826
quizzification1856
joshing1864
barracking1885
ribbing1913
mickey-taking1967
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > action of jesting
japingc1380
bourdingc1400
jesting1526
drolling1670
joking1670
funning1728
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > humorous or jesting > that jests or jokes
japinga1513
jesting1551
bourding1552
drolling1670
joking1714
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 410 Sum men..feden her wittis wiþ sensible þingis and ȝaping of childis gamen.
c1440 Generydes 6135 Generides in Iaping said agayn.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clviii. f. lxxxvi Bernulphus..made thereof dyuerse scoffys and Iapynge Rymes.
1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 39 And said in merry kind of Japing, Indeed Sirs have I ta'ne you napping?
ˈjapingly adv. in a japing manner.
ΘΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adverb]
hethelyc1175
hokerlyc1275
a-scoffc1300
scornfullyc1380
bourdfullya1400
japinglya1420
a-scornc1485
bourdly1500
mockishlya1529
mockingly1542
bourdingly1552
deridingly1570
frumpingly1576
floutingly1580
fleeringly?1620
derisively1665
mockfully1834
snook-cockingly1962
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adverb] > in a jesting manner
merrilyc1395
japinglya1420
pleasantly1552
jestingly1569
facetiously1598
facetely1620
joculatorily1623
sportively1631
lepidly1653
jocularly1655
jocundarily1660
ludicrouslya1678
drollingly1684
jokingly1700
jocosely1725
humorously1752
drolly1791
jest-wise1844
side-splittingly1859
japishly1888
jokily1976
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 3768 Demostenus his hondes ones putte In a wommans bosome japyngly.
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
c1380 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 50 How mowen thei be more takyn in idil than whanne thei ben maad mennus japynge stikke, as when thei ben pleyid of japeris?
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