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Now see what you did to this poor child, omme?
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joke |j?k|
noun
a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, esp. a story with a funny punchline: she was in a mood to tell jokes.
• a trick played on someone for fun.
• [ in sing. ] informal a person or thing that is ridiculously inadequate: the transportation system is a joke.
verb [ no obj. ]
make jokes; talk humorously or flippantly: she could laugh and joke with her colleagues | [ with direct speech ] : “It's OK, we're not related,” she joked.
• [ with obj. ] archaic poke fun at: he was pretending to joke his daughter.
PHRASES
be no joke informal be a serious matter or difficult undertaking: trying to shop with three children in tow is no joke.
can (or can't ) take a joke be able (or unable) to receive humorous remarks or tricks in the spirit in which they are intended: if you can't take a joke, you should never have joined.
the joke is on someone informal someone looks foolish, esp. after trying to make someone else look so.
make a joke of laugh or be humorous about (something that is not funny in itself).
DERIVATIVES
jokingly adverb
ORIGIN late 17th cent. (originally slang): perhaps from Latin jocus ‘jest, wordplay.’
12 years ago. Rating: 12 | |