See it's a joke, Joyce on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Slight alteration of \"That was a joke, Joyce,\" catchphrase of George Wilson (played by Graham Kennedy) spoken to his wife Joyce (Rosie Sturgess) in The Wilsons, a segment featured regularly on Kennedy-presented show In Melbourne Tonight in the 1960s.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "it's a joke, Joyce", "name": "en-interjection" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "intj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Australian English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English sentences", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2005, Damien Broderick, Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 128:", "text": "Scientists are an amusing lot, often with a Monty Python sense of fun. When they say elementary particles such as quarks have charm and strangeness, it's a joke, Joyce.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2009, Rick Stein, Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey, Random House, →ISBN, page 9:", "text": "This book, like so many of mine, is an account of a journey I made to what I've rather cheekily called the Far East. Some people's eyebrows were raised at the expression, thinking it suggested that here in the UK we're still at the centre of the world […] But as my Australian fiancée, Sarah, might say, 'It's a joke, Joyce.'", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Malcolm Knox, The Life, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 12:", "text": "She doesn't laugh. She looks at me quiet and solemn.\nSo I tell her to laugh. About my conspiracy theories she just lapped up.\n'It's a joke, Joyce.'\nShe shakes her head.\n'My name's not Joyce.'", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "That was a joke, so don't take it seriously." ], "id": "en-it's_a_joke,_Joyce-en-intj-9LRXKjxu", "raw_glosses": [ "(Australia, informal) That was a joke, so don't take it seriously." ], "related": [ { "word": "not happy, Jan" } ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "ellipsis" ], "word": "joke Joyce" } ], "tags": [ "Australia", "informal" ], "wikipedia": [ "Graham Kennedy", "In Melbourne Tonight" ] } ], "word": "it's a joke, Joyce" }
{ "etymology_text": "Slight alteration of \"That was a joke, Joyce,\" catchphrase of George Wilson (played by Graham Kennedy) spoken to his wife Joyce (Rosie Sturgess) in The Wilsons, a segment featured regularly on Kennedy-presented show In Melbourne Tonight in the 1960s.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "it's a joke, Joyce", "name": "en-interjection" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "intj", "related": [ { "word": "not happy, Jan" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Australian English", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English eponyms", "English informal terms", "English interjections", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English sentences", "English terms derived from fiction", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2005, Damien Broderick, Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and the New Enlightenment, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 128:", "text": "Scientists are an amusing lot, often with a Monty Python sense of fun. When they say elementary particles such as quarks have charm and strangeness, it's a joke, Joyce.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2009, Rick Stein, Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey, Random House, →ISBN, page 9:", "text": "This book, like so many of mine, is an account of a journey I made to what I've rather cheekily called the Far East. Some people's eyebrows were raised at the expression, thinking it suggested that here in the UK we're still at the centre of the world […] But as my Australian fiancée, Sarah, might say, 'It's a joke, Joyce.'", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Malcolm Knox, The Life, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 12:", "text": "She doesn't laugh. She looks at me quiet and solemn.\nSo I tell her to laugh. About my conspiracy theories she just lapped up.\n'It's a joke, Joyce.'\nShe shakes her head.\n'My name's not Joyce.'", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "That was a joke, so don't take it seriously." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Australia, informal) That was a joke, so don't take it seriously." ], "tags": [ "Australia", "informal" ], "wikipedia": [ "Graham Kennedy", "In Melbourne Tonight" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "ellipsis" ], "word": "joke Joyce" } ], "word": "it's a joke, Joyce" }
Download raw JSONL data for it's a joke, Joyce meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.