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Joke sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Joke sb. Also 7 joque, joc, 8 joak. [Appeared in second half of 17th c., app. originally in slang or colloquial use: cf. JOKING vbl. sb., quot. 1670; app. ad. L. joc-us jest, joke, sport: cf. It. gioco ‘game, play, sport, jeast’ (Florio).]

1   1.  Something said or done to excite laughter or amusement; a witticism, a jest; jesting, raillery; also, something that causes amusement, a ridiculous circumstance.

2   Practical joke, a trick or prank played upon some person usually in order to have a laugh at his expense. Phr. To cut, crack a joke; to turn a matter into a joke, etc.

3 1670.  Eachard, Cont. Clergy, 34. To have the right knack of letting off a Jogue, and of pleasing the Humsters.

4 1683.  Kennett, trans. Erasm. on Folly, 19. Coming off with so many dry joques and biting Repartees.

5 1683.  Dr. Edw. Hooker, Pref. Ep., to Pordage’s Myst. Div., 15. Jocs, or Witticisms, Railleries and Drolleries, Quirks and Quillets.

6 c. 1710.  in Hearne, Collect. (O. H. S.), II. 463. His black Jokes or smutty Songs.

7 1726–46.  Thomson, Winter, 623. The simple joke that takes the shepherd’s heart.

8 1741.  Fielding, Ess., Conversat. Tossing men out of their chairs, tumbling them into water, or any of those handicraft jokes.

9 1741.  Watts, Improv. Mind, I. xviii. § 17. A merry joak upon the stage.

10 1748.  Richardson, Clarissa, Wks. 1883, VII. 470. I … should not forbear to cut a joke, were I upon a scaffold.

11 1749.  Smollett, Gil Blas, III. i. ¶ 5. The best joke of all was, I did not know my master’s name.

12 1790.  Beattie, Moral Sc., I. i. § 7. The practice of turning every thing into joke and ridicule is a dangerous levity of imagination.

13 c. 1835.  Song, ‘Oxford Freshman.’ Next night I got drunker than ever, And sang the Black Joke at his [my Tutor’s] door.

14 1870.  E. Peacock, Ralf Skirl., I. 186. All practical jokes do seem to be particularly foolish to those who suffer from them.

15   2.  transf. An object of or matter for joking; a laughing-stock.

16 1791.  ‘G. Gambado,’ Ann. Horsem., x. (1809), 109. I am the joke of the road wherever I go.

17 1823.  J. F. Cooper, Pilot, I. xvi. 210. I shall be the standing joke of the mess-table, until some greater fool than myself can be found.

18   3.  Something not earnest or serious; a jesting matter. No joke, a serious matter.

19 1726.  Gay, Lett. to Swift, 22 Oct. I wish, I could tell you, that the cutting of the tendons of two of his fingers was a joke; but it is really so.

20 1737.  Pope, Hor. Ep., I. ii. 261. Link towns to towns with avenues of oak, Enclose whole downs in walls, ’tis all a joke! Inexorable Death shall level all.

21 1809.  Malkin, Gil Blas, IX. viii. ¶ 8. And indeed it was no joke.

22 1890.  Guardian, 29 Oct., 1711/1. An Irish faction fight is evidently no joke.

23   4.  attrib. and Comb., as joke-capping; joke-exchanging, -loving, -worthy adjs.; joke-fellow, one with whom a joke is shared.

24 1822.  Galt, Sir A. Wylie, III. xxiv. 197. That English Lord and his Leddy mak him joke-fellow wi’ themselves.

25 1866.  Ch. & State Rev., 17 Aug., 518. A very joke-worthy subject.

26 1883.  T. Wright, Unknown Public, in 19th Cent., 283. Opportunities for using them in the way of joke-capping.

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