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joke

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

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rimshot

English

Alternative forms

  • rim shot

Etymology

rim +? shot

Noun

rimshot (plural rimshots)

  1. A percussive note in which the drumstick hits both the head and the rim of the drum.
  2. (colloquial) A percussive sting or flourish used to punctuate a joke in a cabaret or vaudeville act.

Usage notes

  • Technically, the sting used to punctuate a joke is not a rimshot. A rimshot is a particular note (as in sense 1 above); a sting is a percussive figure consisting of several notes, perhaps a roll followed by a crash cymbal. As noted above, though, colloquially, a sting is also called rimshot.

Further reading

  • rimshot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • sting (percussion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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