joke.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəʊk/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒoʊk/
• 韻: -əʊk

名詞

joke (複数形 jokes)

1. An amusing story.
   • 1708, John Gay, Wine

     Or witty joke our airy senses moves / To pleasant laughter.

2. Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.

   It was a joke!

   • 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:

3. (figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
4. (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.

   Your effort at cleaning your room is a joke.

   The president was a joke.

   • 1943 September and October, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 272:

     The other wheel on the tender of the L.N.W.R. engines operated the tender brake, and this was always rather a joke. Sometimes it operated with good results and on other occasions it did not.

5. (figuratively) Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected.

   The final exam was a joke.

使用する際の注意点

• Adjectives often applied to "joke": old, bad, inside, poor, silly, funny, lame, hilarious, stupid, offensive.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:joke

等位語

派生語

関連する語

• jocular

派生した語

• → Danish: joke
• → French: joke
• → Persian: جوک‎
• → Japanese: ジョーク, → Japanese: 冗句
• → Welsh: jôc

動詞

joke (三人称単数 現在形 jokes, 現在分詞 joking, 過去形および過去分詞形 joked)

1. (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.

   I didn’t mean what I said — I was only joking.

2. (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.

   Relax, man, I'm just joking with you.

3. (transitive, dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.

   to joke a comrade

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:

     He made more than one visit to Oxbridge, where the young fellows were amused by entertaining the old gentleman, and gave parties and breakfasts and fêtes, partly to joke him and partly to do him honour.

関連する語

• joker

参考

• jeer
• mock

アナグラム

• ojek