Noun: joke
Sample Sentences
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Or witty joke our airy senses moves / To pleasant laughter. [1708, John Gay, Wine:]
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It was a joke!
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[1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:]
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Your effort at cleaning your room is a joke.
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The president was a joke.
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The other wheel on the tender of the L.N.W.R. engines operated the tender brake, and this was always rather a joke. Sometimes it operated with good results and on other occasions it did not. [1943 September and October, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 272:]
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The final exam was a joke.
Nouns inflected like joke
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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 jeu, Italian gioco, Portuguese jogo, Spanish juego, Romanian joc, English Yule, Danish Jule, Norwegian Bokmål Jul, Swedish Jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol. See: German Nouns '
Beichte', French Nouns '
jeu', Italian Nouns '
gioco', Portuguese Nouns '
jogo', Spanish Nouns '
juego', Romanian Nouns '
joc', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
jol'.
Verbs referencing "joke"
Danish Nouns
joke, Italian Nouns
gioco, Spanish Nouns
juego, Icelandic Nouns
djók, Swedish Nouns
jox, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
juks, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
juks.