"knock-knock joke" meaning in English

See knock-knock joke in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: knock-knock jokes [plural]
Etymology: knock-knock + joke Etymology templates: {{m|en|knock-knock}} knock-knock, {{m|en|joke}} joke Head templates: {{en-noun}} knock-knock joke (plural knock-knock jokes)
  1. One of a class of childish jokes told as a dialog, and usually including a pun, in the following form: Wikipedia link: knock-knock joke Categories (topical): Comedy Synonyms: knock knock, knock knock joke

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for knock-knock joke meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "knock-knock"
      },
      "expansion": "knock-knock",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "joke"
      },
      "expansion": "joke",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "knock-knock + joke",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knock-knock jokes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "knock-knock joke (plural knock-knock jokes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Comedy",
          "orig": "en:Comedy",
          "parents": [
            "Drama",
            "Theater",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Knock knock."
        },
        {
          "text": "\"Who's there?\""
        },
        {
          "text": "(The teller of the joke says a name.)"
        },
        {
          "text": "(The person to whom the joke is being told repeats the name, followed by \"who?\")"
        },
        {
          "text": "(The teller of the joke says a pun based on the name.)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One of a class of childish jokes told as a dialog, and usually including a pun, in the following form:",
        "One of a class of childish jokes told as a dialog, and usually including a pun, in the following form"
      ],
      "id": "en-knock-knock_joke-en-noun-2S~Ua-~l",
      "links": [
        [
          "joke",
          "joke"
        ],
        [
          "pun",
          "pun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "One of a class of childish jokes told as a dialog, and usually including a pun, in the following form:"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "knock knock"
        },
        {
          "word": "knock knock joke"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "knock-knock joke"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knock-knock joke"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "knock-knock"
      },
      "expansion": "knock-knock",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "joke"
      },
      "expansion": "joke",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "knock-knock + joke",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knock-knock jokes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "knock-knock joke (plural knock-knock jokes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Comedy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Knock knock."
        },
        {
          "text": "\"Who's there?\""
        },
        {
          "text": "(The teller of the joke says a name.)"
        },
        {
          "text": "(The person to whom the joke is being told repeats the name, followed by \"who?\")"
        },
        {
          "text": "(The teller of the joke says a pun based on the name.)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One of a class of childish jokes told as a dialog, and usually including a pun, in the following form:",
        "One of a class of childish jokes told as a dialog, and usually including a pun, in the following form"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "joke",
          "joke"
        ],
        [
          "pun",
          "pun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "One of a class of childish jokes told as a dialog, and usually including a pun, in the following form:"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "knock-knock joke"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "knock knock"
    },
    {
      "word": "knock knock joke"
    }
  ],
  "word": "knock-knock joke"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.