japing

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.

   Synonyms:

   gibe, trick, befool, make fun of, razz, chaff, disparage, forgab, frump, gleek

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

   Synonyms:

   coitize, go to bed with, sleep with, Formal terms, bed, coit, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto

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