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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jape/ʤeɪp/

▶noun a practical joke. ▶verb say or do something in jest or mockery.

– derivatives
japery noun.

– origin ME: appar. combining the form of OFr. japer ‘to yelp, yap’ with the sense of OFr. gaber ‘to mock’.

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