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Meanings of jape in English

Portuguese
graça
Catalan
agudesa
Spanish
gracia

A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.

graça
Usage of jape in English
1
This is not some strange jape of Littlefinger's? He sheathed his blade.
A Game of Thrones
2
The Sphinx was always smiling, as if he knew some secret jape.
A feast for crows
3
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, appeared particularly amused by the jape.
The Guardian
4
One of the smoking-room humorists mocked his accent and ventured a crude jape.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
5
I'm only making a jest, madame, a bit of a jape.
Android Karenina
6
Was it some jape, to make a fool of the stupid hedge knight?
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
7
The poorest have become the victims of a political jape.
The Guardian
8
Nothing to him, the crude jape of the professional jester.
Yet Again
9
Always they cry, jangle, and jape; that unneth they be still while they sleep.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
10
Ah, those college kids, they don't half love a jape.
The Irish Times
11
It had all been a trap, a game, a jape.
A Dance with Dragons
12
It was the much riskier jape of routinely conflating free speech with hate speech.
The Irish Times
13
Tesla share price His playful jape sent shares sky-rocketing, only for them to plummet again.
The South African
14
It's not good to jape of that one, not when we're so near the Rhoyne.
A Dance with Dragons
15
It's a time-worn jape, but it fitted in admirably.
The Postmaster's Daughter
16
So Trip taught me how to jape and tumble.
The Name of the Wind
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Jape through the time