† bejapev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To play a trick on; to trick or befool.
ΘΚΠ
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
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 290 God wil nouȝt be bigiled..ne bi-iaped.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 727 And hast byiaped here duc Theseus.
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 112 The smert of thought..hath..so me by-japed.
a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 8 An olde fowle..May cawse many othyr to be bejaped.
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