What's the difference between jape and joke?

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.

Joke


Definition:

  • (n.) Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.
  • (n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport.
  • (v. t.) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade.
  • (v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
  • (3) Fringe 2009 also welcomes back Aussie standup Jim Jeffries , whose jokes include: "Women to me are like public toilets.
  • (4) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
  • (5) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
  • (6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (7) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
  • (8) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
  • (9) Quizzed by one journalist, Gabrielli joked that "the first 12 hours are the most dangerous".
  • (10) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
  • (11) Musk revealed his love for Kerbal Space Program in a Q&A in Reddit , joking (or maybe not?)
  • (12) One of the punters came up to me after and said that I seemed confident, but he’d spent the whole time wondering when I was going to tell a joke.
  • (13) In a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 comedy Alun Cochrane's Fun House , Cochrane joked of how he sleeps better in the living room.
  • (14) I’m just going to prepare myself for next year, for the Olympics and come out even stronger.” Questioned over Bolt’s joking accusation, Gatlin added: “I want my money back.
  • (15) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
  • (16) His art knows this and tries to deal with it by way of jokes and excess.
  • (17) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
  • (18) It would also be likely to lend scope to ill-conceived prosecutions jeopardising ordinary free speech rights, such as the notorious Twitter Joke Trial .
  • (19) This, Brown jokes, counts as good weather for Scotland.
  • (20) December 3, 2013 And fellow presenters took the opportunity for some jokes at his expense.