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"ref": "1530, John Palsgrave, L'esclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse, Paris: Impremierie Nationale, published 1852, page 589",
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"3": "japen",
"4": "",
"5": "to deceive, play tricks on; act foolishly, joke; have sex with"
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"5": "to bark, howl, scream; chatter, gossip"
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{
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"3": "",
"4": "to bark, yelp, yap"
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"1": "osx",
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"3": "",
"4": "to cry loudly, make a noise, brag"
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"3": "",
"4": "to bark, howl, scream"
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"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "gelpfen",
"3": "",
"4": "to scream, bark, boast, proclaim"
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"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "gjálpa",
"3": "",
"4": "to yelp"
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"2": "galpa",
"3": "",
"4": "to cry, screech"
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"name": "cog"
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"1": "en",
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"name": "m"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English japen (“to deceive, play tricks on; act foolishly, joke; have sex with”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French japer (“to bark, howl, scream; chatter, gossip”) (possibly conflated with Old French gaber (“to mock, deride”), see gab), related to Old Occitan japar, jaupar (“to bark, yelp, yap”), probably of Proto-Germanic origin, related to Old Saxon galpōn (“to cry loudly, make a noise, brag”) (Low German galpen (“to bark, howl, scream”)), Middle High German gelpfen (“to scream, bark, boast, proclaim”), Old Norse gjálpa (“to yelp”) (dialectal Swedish galpa (“to cry, screech”)). More at yelp, yawp, yap.",
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"form": "japing",
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"ref": "1886, Andrew Lang, “To Sir John Manndeville”, in Letters to Dead Authors",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To jest; play tricks."
],
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"jest"
]
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"(intransitive) To jest; play tricks."
],
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"word": "joke"
},
{
"word": "jest"
}
],
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"categories": [
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"glosses": [
"To mock; deride."
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"(transitive) To mock; deride."
],
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"word": "gibe"
},
{
"word": "trick"
},
{
"word": "befool"
},
{
"word": "make fun of"
},
{
"word": "razz"
},
{
"word": "mock"
}
],
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{
"ref": "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",
"text": "Nay, brother, lay hand on him soon; / For he japed my wife, and made me cuckold.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1530, John Palsgrave, L'esclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse, Paris: Impremierie Nationale, published 1852, page 589",
"text": "I jape a wench […] it is better to jape a wenche than to do worce.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 323–324; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 23",
"text": "Thair is ane hundreth heir sittand by / That luiffis geaping als weill as I.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1550, Alexander Scott, Poems, published 1821, page 26",
"text": "Sum gois so gymp in gyis / Or sche war kissit plane, / Sche leir be japit thryis.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1598, Florio, Worlde of Wordes",
"text": "Fottere. To jape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To have sexual intercourse with."
],
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],
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"word": "coitize"
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{
"word": "go to bed with"
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{
"word": "sleep with"
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{
"word": "copulate with"
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