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japejape /dʒeɪp/ noun [countable] British English old-fashioned  japeOrigin: 1300-1400 jape ‘to joke, make fun of someone’ (14-20 centuries), from Old French japer ‘to cry out like a dog’ - But although many pirates see it all as a jolly jape, people in the software business are getting worried.
- But even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point; and Blast had none.
- No explanation for the fall was ever given, though Sir Thomas believed he may have been involved in some stupid jape.
- The brand might be no mark of honour at all - but a culminating cruel humiliating jape.
- The not unfamiliar childish jape of depositing a stink bomb in her locker caused her great anguish.
- What a jape it would be, declared Raphaelo, to gain access to the heat sink.
- What larks and japes persuaded this audience to collapse in convulsions is a mystery as dark as the Druids' Runes.
a trick or joke |