jape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: japes
form: japing
form: japed
form: japed
Etymology: From Middle English japen (“to deceive, play tricks on; act foolishly, joke; have sex with”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps combining Old French japer (“to bark, howl, scream; chatter, gossip”) with gaber (“to mock, deride”).
See also gab, Old Occitan japar, jaupar (“to bark, yelp, yap”), related to Old Saxon galpōn (“to cry loudly, make a noise, brag”) (Low German galpen (“to bark, howl, scream”)), Middle High German gelpfen (“to scream, bark, boast, proclaim”), Old Norse gjálpa (“to yelp”) (dialectal Swedish galpa (“to cry, screech”)). More at yelp, yawp, yap.
Senses: examples: text: Now the Lond of Egypt longeth to the Soudan, yet the Soudan longeth not to the Lond of Egypt. And when I say this, I do jape with words, and may hap ye understond me not.
ref: 1886, Andrew Lang, “To Sir John Manndeville”, in Letters to Dead Authors:
synonyms: word: joke
word: joke
word: jest
glosses: To jest; play tricks.
synonyms: word: gibe
word: trick
word: befool
word: make fun of
word: razz
word: befool
word: frump
word: gibe
word: gird
word: gleek
word: jape
word: jeer
word: jive
word: josh
word: kid
word: lampoon
word: mimic
word: mock
word: needle
word: niggle
word: razz
word: rib
word: roast
word: satirize
word: scoff
word: scorn
word: tease
word: twit
word: bust on
word: clown around
word: make a fool of
word: make fun of
word: make sport of
word: poke fun at
glosses: To mock; deride.
examples: text: Nay, brother, lay hand on him soon; / For he japed my wife, and made me cuckold.
ref: 1510, Hycke Scorner; “Hickscorner”, in Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt, editors, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, 4th edition, volume 1, London: Reeves and Turner, 1874, page 171:
text: I jape a wench […] it is better to jape a wenche than to do worce.
ref: 1530, John Palsgrave, L'esclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse, Paris: Impremierie Nationale, published 1852, page 589:
text: Thair is ane hundreth heir sittand by / That luiffis geaping als weill as I.
ref: 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 323–324; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 23:
text: Sum gois so gymp in gyis / Or sche war kissit plane, / Sche leir be japit thryis.
ref: c. 1550, Alexander Scott, Poems, published 1821, page 26:
text: Fottere. To jape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.
ref: 1598, Florio, Worlde of Wordes:
synonyms: word: coitize
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with.
Derived terms: japingly