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Jape

noun
1.
A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.  Synonyms: gag, jest, joke, laugh.  "He knows a million gags" , "Thanks for the laugh" , "He laughed unpleasantly at his own jest" , "Even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"






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"Jape" Quotes from Famous Books



... hoped not unpleasant, feature of the book is its abundant illustrative quotations from eminent poets, chief of whom is that learned and ingenius cleric, Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J., whose lines bear his initials. To Father Jape's kindly encouragement and assistance the author of the prose text is ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce



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