JAPE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To jest; to play tricks; to jeer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2.
v.

To mock; to trick. Chaucer. I have not been putting a jape upon you. Sir W. Scott. The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape. W. Besant.

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