单词	jape
释义	japejape /dʒeɪp/ noun [countable] British English old-fashioned Word Origin WORD ORIGINjape Origin: 1300-1400 jape ‘to joke, make fun of someone’ (14-20 centuries), from Old French japer ‘to cry out like a dog’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS 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
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