(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.
Jokey
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Users discover that devices are suddenly answering back or misbehaving before the revelation that a jokey ghost has been placed in the machine.
(2) I started chatting with owner Charlie MacDonald about who would take over from Donnie in a jokey way at first, but then, before I knew it I had left my job and joined Stag as Donnie's replacement.
(3) Michel explained: "My wife is English and Spanish so … " Jay suggested to Michel he understood "the value of human interaction, whether it's by jokey text message, warm text message, mobile conversation or face-to-face meeting.
(4) Also, in South Africa, as in Australia, another huge Nando's market, Nando's is marketed as a jokey brand.
(5) Despite their jokey exterior, most had big things on their mind, fretting over marriages and babies, breakups and single life; less "grossout" comedy than "freakout".
(6) Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it was unquestionably the closest the movie series has come to capturing the spirit of Fleming's early work.
(7) Green and Wallace used to have a long-running jokey argument along these lines, about whether Wallace should allow his "inner sap" into his prose.
(8) He did his best to keep it informal and jokey but he was finding it harder and harder to pick someone out who would ask him a tame gimme.
(9) Some jokey conspiracy theories did the rounds and one YouTube user criticised Hadfield's interpretation of the song as being overly literal (arguably correct, but a trifle harsh, considering).
(10) In comparison, mine was comparatively mild and merely slightly jokey."
(11) He has also followed his father in being somewhat "jokey" in person while retaining a set of "sternly puritanical" principles.
(12) Panti Bliss, aka Rory O’Neill – the drag queen, gay icon and now national treasure who was the yes campaign’s ace card in the referendum – tells a wonderful story about meeting Madonna: “Her default setting is jokey cunt.” His dress is fabulous: a glitter ball stuffed in a Coca-Cola bottle.
(13) He is often portrayed as the classic "serious clown" whose intense, driven private personality is at odds with his public image as a jokey, happy-go-lucky talkshow host.
(14) The songs are celebrated for the cheerful candour of their intimacy, with the 2009 single Not Fair bemoaning an ex-boyfriend's premature ejaculation, while Alfie, a hit from her 2006 debut album, was a jokey hymn to her irritation with her stoner baby brother Alfie .
(15) Posting a jokey picture of herself pretending to throttle Cowell, she wrote: "GUESS WHAT!!
(16) 8.45am GMT IDF jokes on Twitter go down badly The IDF is attracting criticism for the jokey tone of updates by some of its members on Twitter, amid the bloodshed.
(17) In his jokey quips and famous "top 10" lists Letterman and his team of writers have rarely pulled their punches.
(18) The Batman movies of the 1990s were camp and jokey; the Dark Knight movies, appearing a decade later, were not.
(19) Silver!” chips in Ringo, in a jokey stage-whisper.
(20) His classroom feels like a teenage bedroom, with a "No diving" sign by the window and various jokey posters on the packed walls, including a laminated teabag (an in-joke with a previous class) and a shrine to a former head girl who bagged 11 A*s. It turns out Burton, 30, really was once in a "rubbish band" – a subject of much fascination among the pupils – but has taught at Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, since he qualified as a teacher.