different between jape vs ridicule

English

Etymology

From Middle English japen (“to deceive, play tricks on; act foolishly, joke; have sex with”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French japer (“to bark, howl, scream; chatter, gossip”) (possibly conflated with Old French gaber (“to mock, deride”), see gab), related to Old Occitan japar, jaupar (“to bark, yelp, yap”), probably of Proto-Germanic origin, related to Old Saxon galp?n (“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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??e?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p

Noun

jape (plural japes)

1. A joke or quip.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joke

   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales:

     "Thou bel ami, thou Pardoner," he said,

     "Tell us some mirth of japes right anon."

   • 1920, Jeffery Farnol, The Geste of Duke Jocelyn, Fytte 9:

     [H]e clapped hand to thigh, and laughed and laughed until the air rang again.

     "Oho, a jape—a jape indeed!" he roared.

2. A prank or trick.

Derived terms

• bejape
• japery

Translations

Verb

jape (third-person singular simple present japes, present participle japing, simple past and past participle japed)

1. (intransitive) To jest; play tricks.

   Synonyms: joke; see also Thesaurus:jest
2. (transitive) To mock; deride.

   Synonyms: gibe, trick, befool, make fun of, razz; see also Thesaurus:mock

3. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.

   Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Anagrams

• Peja

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?kju?l/
• Hyphenation: rid?i?cule

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin ridiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).

Verb

ridicule (third-person singular simple present ridicules, present participle ridiculing, simple past and past participle ridiculed)

1. (transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of

Synonyms

• outlaugh

Translations

Noun

ridicule (countable and uncountable, plural ridicules)

1. derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
   • 1738, Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogue II

     Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.

2. An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
   • 1857, Henry Thomas Buckle, History of Civilization in England

     [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.

   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     To the people […] but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.

3. The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ridicule

Related terms

• deride
• derision
• ridiculable
• ridiculous
• ridiculosity

Translations

See also

• humiliation

Adjective

ridicule (comparative more ridicule, superlative most ridicule)

1. (obsolete) ridiculous
   • late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives

     This action […] became so ridicule.

Etymology 2

From French ridicule, probably jocular alteration of réticule.

Noun

ridicule (plural ridicules)

1. (now historical) A small woman's handbag; a reticule. [from 18th c.]
   • c. 1825, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 455:

     I hastily drew my empty hand from my Ridicule.

   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:

     ‘Pockets, women's ridicules, houses, mailcoaches […] ,’ said Mr. Claypole.

Further reading

• ridicule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ridicule in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ridiculus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.di.kyl/

Adjective

ridicule (plural ridicules)

1. ridiculous (all meanings)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ridicule” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From r?diculus (“laughable; ridiculous”), from r?de? (“to laugh; mock”).

Adverb

r?dicul? (comparative r?diculius, superlative r?diculissim?)

1. laughably, amusingly
2. absurdly, ridiculously

Synonyms

• perr?dicul?

References

• ridicule in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ridicule in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ridicule in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette