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The Meaning of joke
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(n.) Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.
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(n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport.
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(v. t.) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade.
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(v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest.
Synonyms
prank
,
muzzle
,
caper
,
trick
,
antic
,
jest
,
gag
,
laughter
,
jocularity
,
laugh
,
put-on
,
jape
,
jocosity
,
jocundity
,
pasquinade
,
thaumaturgy
,
john
,
sendup
,
deception
,
legerdemain
,
magic trick
,
parody
,
job
,
capriole
,
fraud
,
whoremaster
,
clowning
,
takeoff
,
mockery
,
humbug
,
charade
,
frivolity
,
play
,
buffoonery
,
romp
,
fraudulence
,
fast one
,
dupery
,
illusion
,
magic
,
lampoon
,
harlequinade
,
hoax
,
travesty
,
whoremonger
,
gambol
,
frolic
,
burlesque
,
spoof
,
conjuring trick
,
japery
,
conjuration
,
wit
,
banter
,
fun
,
waggery
,
humor
,
playfulness
,
waggishness
,
drollery
,
pleasantry
,
witticism
,
facetiousness
,
raillery
,
communicate
,
intercommunicate
Antonyms
dulness
,
seriousness
,
sobriety
,
solemnity
,
stolidity
,
stupidity
,
gravity
Rhymes
artichoke
,
awoke
,
backstroke
,
baroque
,
bloke
,
boak
,
boake
,
boeck
,
boeke
,
bouck
,
broke
,
choke
,
cloak
,
cloke
,
coke
,
countryfolk
,
croak
,
croke
,
doak
,
doke
,
droke
,
evoke
,
folk
,
goecke
,
goeke
,
gohlke
,
hoek
,
hoke
,
holyoke
,
invoke
,
keystroke
,
knoke
,
koch
,
koke
,
kolk
,
larocque
,
laroque
,
misspoke
,
moacq
,
moak
,
moke
,
noack
,
oak
,
poke
,
polk
,
provoke
,
revoke
,
roanoke
,
roque
,
schmoke
,
schoeck
,
schroeck
,
scoke
,
sloke
,
slowpoke
,
smoak
,
smoke
,
snoke
,
soak
,
spoke
,
stoke
,
stroke
,
szoke
,
townsfolk
,
windhoek
,
woke
,
wolk
,
wouk
,
yoak
,
yoke
,
yolk