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japed

japed is the simple past and past participle of jape.

Meaning of jape

Verb

jape (third-person singular simple present japes, present participle japing, simple past and past participle japed)

  1. (intransitive) To jest; play tricks.
    • Now the Lond of Egypt longeth to the Soudan, yet the Soudan longeth not to the Lond of Egypt. And when I say this, I do jape with words, and may hap ye understond me not.1886, Andrew Lang, “To Sir John Manndeville”, in Letters to Dead Authors
    Synonyms:
    joke, jest
  2. (transitive) To mock; deride.
  3. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
    • Nay, brother, lay hand on him soon; / For he japed my wife, and made me cuckold.1510, Hycke Scorner; “Hickscorner”, in Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt, editors, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, 4th edition, volume 1, London: Reeves and Turner, 1874, page 171

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What is japed the simple past and past participle of?
Japed is the simple past and past participle of jape.

Words near japed in the dictionary

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  7. JAPEN
  8. Japenis
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  10. japeries
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