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jake

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d?e?k/

Adjective

jake (comparative more jake, superlative most jake)

  1. (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 126:
      ‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.’

Noun

jake (countable and uncountable, plural jakes)

  1. (US) A juvenile male turkey.
  2. (New York, slang) police, a federal government officer.
    • 1998, Big L, "Ebonics (Criminal Slang)"
      A radio is a box, a razor blade is a ox / fat diamonds is rocks and jakes is cops.
  3. (slang) A police officer (on foot, rather than in a patrol car)
  4. (US, slang, uncountable) Jamaica ginger
  5. A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual.
    • 1993, "selvarv, the keeper of Rig", Today's impending JAKE! (on newsgroup alt.discordia)
      Hello, I'm afraid in some regards I'm too discordian for my own good and I forgot to either write down the jake-dupe's address, or include it in my repost when I suggested today as jake day....
    • 1994, "Matthew Morse", StarTrek (on newsgroup alt.discordia)
      It strikes me that organizing a jake over the net is a bad idea, because Hormel could conceivably find out about it before it happens. That's not going to stop me from participating though.
    • 1999, "Jeff X. Mink", My Christmas Card! (on newsgroup alt.discordia)
      Call me old fashioned, but this situation is really inappropriate for a jake. [] I mean that a little girl was seriously injured, [] and we, as Discordians, should have more respect for the holy tradition of the jake, and use its powers only for those situations where it can actually do some good, or at least be worth a good laugh.

Derived terms

  • jake leg

Verb

jake (third-person singular simple present jakes, present participle jaking, simple past and past participle jaked)

  1. (transitive) To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person.

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josh

English

Etymology

Of disputed origin, but first attested in the mid-19th century as a verb. The earliest example is capitalized, so it is likely a nickname of the proper name Joshua (see more there). Perhaps it was taken as a typical name of an old farmer.

Noun

josh (plural joshes)

  1. An instance of good-natured banter.

Verb

josh (third-person singular simple present joshes, present participle joshing, simple past and past participle joshed)

  1. (transitive) To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion.
  2. (intransitive) To make or exchange good-natured jokes.
    • 1902: We are old friends, did I not tell you? So I may, what you Americans call, josh with him. — Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows
    • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[1]
      Boris, it seems, is taking it in this spirit, joshing beneath his ever-redeeming barnet that Labour's opposition to military action in Syria is a fey stance that he, as GQ politician of the year, would never be guilty of.

Translations

Derived terms

  • josher
  • joshingly

References

  • “josh” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *j?udsja, from Proto-Indo-European *Hyewd?- (compare Lithuanian jáudinti (to excite, arouse), Polish judzi? (to incite), Latin jubere (to order)).

Verb

josh (first-person singular past tense josha, participle joshur)

  1. to fondle, caress
  2. to entice, seduce

Derived terms

  • joshë

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