different between joke vs game

English

Etymology

From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jouer, Italian giocare, Portuguese jogar, Spanish juego and jugar, and Romanian juca.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?o?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

joke (plural jokes)

1. An amusing story.
   • 1708, John Gay, Wine

     Or witty joke our airy senses moves / To pleasant laughter.

2. Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.

   It was a joke!
3. (figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
4. (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.

   Your effort at cleaning your room is a joke.

   The president was a joke.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "joke": old, bad, inside, poor, silly, funny, lame, hilarious, stupid, offensive.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:joke

Coordinate terms

• comedy
• limerick
• parody
• pun

Derived terms

Related terms

• jocular

Descendants

• ? Danish: joke
• ? French: joke
• ? Persian: ????
• ? Japanese: ????, ? Japanese: ??
• ? Welsh: jôc

Translations

Verb

joke (third-person singular simple present jokes, present participle joking, simple past and past participle joked)

1. (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.

   I didn’t mean what I said — I was only joking.

2. (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.

   Relax, man, I'm just joking with you.

3. (transitive, dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.

   to joke a comrade

Related terms

• joker

Translations

See also

• jeer
• mock

Anagrams

• ojek

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English joke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?j?w??]

Noun

joke c (singular definite joken, plural indefinite jokes)

1. joke

Inflection

Synonyms

• spøg
• vits
• vittighed

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English joke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?j?w???], (imperative) IPA^(key): [?d?j?w???]

Verb

joke (past tense jokede, past participle joket)

1. joke

Inflection

Synonyms

• spøge

French

Etymology

From English joke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ok/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /d?o?k/

Noun

joke f (plural jokes)

1. (Louisiana, Quebec) joke

Derived terms

• faire une joke

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?m, IPA^(key): /?e?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gaman? (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).

Cognate with Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.

Noun

game (countable and uncountable, plural games)

1. A playful or competitive activity.
   1. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

   2. (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
      • 1983, Lawrence Lasker & al., WarGames:

        Joshua: Shall we play a game?
        David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
        Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
        David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
        Joshua: Fine.

      • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37:

        From time to time, track-suited boys ran past them, with all the deadly purpose and humourless concentration of those who enjoyed Games.

   3. (countable) A particular instance of playing a game; match.

      • “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

   4. That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
   5. The number of points necessary to win a game.

   6. (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
   7. (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.

   8. One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
      • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, chapter 11:

        I played golf with her that same afternoon. She lost eight balls, I remember. Eight. I had a terrible time getting her to at least open her eyes when she took a swing at the ball. I improved her game immensely, though.

   9. (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
2. (countable) A video game.

   Hypernym: title
3. (countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

4. (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

   • I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game’s afoot!

   • “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
5. (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
6. (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.

7. (uncountable, informal, used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
   • 1998, Nate Dogg, She's Strange (song)

     She's strange, so strange, but I didn't complain. She said yes to me when I ran my game.

8. (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
9. (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

   • Your murderous game is nearly up.

   • It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:game
• (synonyms to be checked): pastime, play, recreation, frolic, sport, diversion, fun, amusement, merriment, festivity, entertainment, spree, prank, lark, gambol, merrymaking, gaiety
• (instance of gameplay): match
• (field of gainful activity): line
• (military): wargame
• (business or occupation): racket
• (questionable practices): racket

Antonyms

• (antonyms to be checked): drudgery, work, toil

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: gamen, game
• ? Japanese: ???
• ? Norman: gamme
• ? Norwegian: gamen, game
• ? Portuguese: game
• ? Spanish: game
• ? Welsh: gêm

Translations

Adjective

game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)

1. (colloquial) Willing to participate.
2. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
3. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Synonyms

• (willing to participate): sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant

Antonyms

• (willing to participate): cautious, disinclined

Translations

Verb

game (third-person singular simple present games, present participle gaming, simple past and past participle gamed)

1. (intransitive) To gamble.

2. (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
3. (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

   We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.

4. (transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
   • 2005, "Picking up the pieces", The Economist, 6 October 2005:

     Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.

   • 2010, Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, Villard Books (2010), ?ISBN, page 100:

     A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.

   • 2010, Sheila McClear, "Would you date a pickup artist?", New York Post, 9 July 2010:

     How did Amanda know she wasn’t getting gamed? Well, she didn’t. “I would wonder, ‘Is he saying stuff to other girls that he says to me?’ We did everything we could to cut it off . . . yet we somehow couldn’t.”

Derived terms

• game the system
• gamer

Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

game (comparative more game, superlative most game)

1. Injured, lame (of a limb).
   • around 1900, O. Henry, Lost on Dress Parade

     You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time your game ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure."

See also

• game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• MEGA, Mega, mage, mega, mega-

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?m/
• Hyphenation: game
• Rhymes: -e?m

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English game.

Noun

game m (plural games, diminutive gamepje n)

1. A video game, an electronic game.

   Synonyms: videogame, videospel

Hyponyms

• computerspel

Related terms

• gamen
• gamer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

game

1. first-person singular present indicative of gamen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of gamen
3. imperative of gamen

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English gamen, gomen; from Proto-Germanic *gaman?, of disputed origin.

Alternative forms

• gamen, gemen, gomen, gome, gammen, gaume, gamme, gamin, gomin, gomyn, gomun, gam, geme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?m(?)/, /??am(?)/, /??a?m?n/, /??am?n/
• (from OE gomen) IPA^(key): /????m(?)/, /????m?n/
• (Kent) IPA^(key): /????m(?)/, /????m?n/

Noun

game (plural games or game)

1. Entertainment or an instance of it; that which is enjoyable:
   1. A sport or other outdoor or physical activity.
   2. A game; a codified (and often competitive) form of entertainment.
   3. Sexual or romantic entertainment or activity (including intercourse in itself).
   4. An amusing, joking, or humorous activity or event.
2. Any kind of event or occurrence; something that happens:
   1. An endeavour; a set of actions towards a goal.
   2. Any kind of activity having competition or rivalry.
3. The state of being happy or joyful.
4. Game; wild animals hunted for food.
5. (rare) One's quarry; that which one is trying to catch.
6. (rare) Gamesmanship; gaming behaviour.
7. (rare) The reward for winning a game.

Derived terms

• gameful
• gamely
• gamen

Descendants

• English: game, gammon (dialectal gam) (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: gemme, gem, gyem
• Yola: gaame, gaaume

References

• “g?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-09.

Etymology 2

From Old English gæmnian, gamnian, gamenian.

Verb

game

1. Alternative form of gamen

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English game.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??ejm/, /??ej.mi/

Noun

game m (plural games)

1. (Brazil, slang) electronic game (game played on an electronic device, such as a computer game, a video game or the like)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:game.

See also

• jogo

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /???.mi/

Verb

game

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of gamar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of gamar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of gamar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of gamar

Spanish

Noun

game m (plural games)

1. (tennis) game