What's the difference between jape and japery?

Jape


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.
  • (v. t.) To mock; to trick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Impassioned shouty pointy Arsenal man, Romelu Lukaku's hotel japes and Jonathan de Guzman giving Dirk Kuyt a very black eye are all part of this week's Classic YouTube .
  • (2) Mel and Sue, providing jolly japes about buns and so on, are just like Ant'n'Dec for the Guardian reader.
  • (3) Gray drew strongly on his relationship with his brother, 10 years his junior and also a writer and academic, for Japes, his 2001 success.
  • (4) And although we undertook the exercise as a bit of a jape, something else about the results stood out: the greatest talking up of a turnaround was in the rightwing papers.
  • (5) She even had Alexa, an old children's home pal, turn up for some japes.
  • (6) In fact, there was a sinking feeling once the japes of his final show – the tandem trip with Boris, the guest gag with Michael Howard, the signoff weather forecast – took hold.
  • (7) He dressed up as Santa Claus He made both managers wear festive hats He replaced the pre-match coin toss with a Christmas cracker What japes He gave every mascot a mince pie Lionel Messi was born in which city?
  • (8) Actually, the Mill just threw in that last one for japes.
  • (9) Where once there were pub japes, there are now spreadsheets.
  • (10) Farewell to the awful swotters, dirty tinkers and jolly japes: Enid Blyton's language is being dragged out of the 1940s by her publisher in an attempt to give her books greater appeal for today's children.
  • (11) Elise Andrew is "overwhelmed" and "blown away" when she looks at the Facebook page she created as a jape and which has nearly 7 million likes and more than 3 million "talking abouts" and fans including evolutionary biologist and writer Richard Dawkins and TV host Bill Nye, "the science guy".
  • (12) It was to mark the beginning of the final flowering of his career, during which he wrote three of his finest plays, including The Late Middle Classes and, latterly, Japes.
  • (13) Not to mention a fart machine and ­perpetrator of other mad, pointless and preposterous one-time-use pranks, japes and wheezes.
  • (14) Gray confidently and, as it turned out, inaccurately, predicted that Japes would be his last play.
  • (15) But behind the jokes and japes lies an unpleasant party founded on fear, one that exploits the anxiety of older voters and is proving to be a profoundly corrosive influence on British politics.
  • (16) Mulberry had fun with storybooks, English boarding school japes and a pooch on the catwalk wearing the label's most luxurious dog-wear to date, a sheepskin-trimmed and padded parka jacket; Anya Hindmarch themed her collection on Quality Street wrappers, provided a tea trolley and rode a bicycle.
  • (17) asks JUSTIN SPENCER, whose caps lock button appears to have been glued down by a colleague as part of some hilarious office jape.
  • (18) This, though, is the light stuff: university japes, boys being boys.
  • (19) Let's preserve the mystery and say only that what Richard did falls outside the category of jolly japes.
  • (20) When he brought George W Bush to the constituency in 2003 , the US president’s twin black Sikorsky helicopters had to land in a nearby field, before Dubya alighted for the jape of seeing how a British leader lived.

Japery


Definition:

  • (n.) Jesting; buffoonery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The japery of the term – oh, look, what used to be a wasteland has now got an organic hot dog company on it!
  • (2) Directed by Len Wiseman (who made Underworld and Live Free or Die Hard ), and co-starring Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel, Total Recall draws on the same source material as the 1990 Schwarzenegger film – the short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K Dick – although it is bidding to be a darker and more atmospheric action film, eschewing any camp japery.

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