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The action or disposition of a wag; drollery, jocularity; in early use chiefly, mischievous drollery, practical joking.
In weakened use. A mischievous trick, a prank; (as a mass noun) mischief, waggishness. Cf. knave, n. 3b. Obsolete.
The action of joke, v.; jesting. joking apart.
the practice of attempting to deceive or mislead others in a playful way or as a joke; an instance of this.