jape /ˈʤep/
 戲言,笑料,嘲弄(vi.)開玩笑(vt.)嘲弄


 Jape v. i.  To jest; to play tricks; to jeer. [Obs.]


 Jape, v. t. To mock; to trick.
    I have not been putting a jape upon you.   --Sir W. Scott.
    The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape.   --W. Besant.

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 jape
      n : a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter;
          "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags";
          "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at
          hisown jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to
          have some ascertainable point" [syn: joke, gag, laugh,
           jest]