jape
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Is jape a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To jest; play tricks.Examples: "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."Synonyms: joke, joke, jestintransitive
2. (transitive) To mock; deride.Synonyms: gibe, trick, befool, make fun of, razz, befool, frump, gibetransitive
3. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.Examples: "Nay, brother, lay hand on him soon; / For he japed my wife, and made me cuckold."; "I jape a wench […] it is better to jape a wenche than to do worce."; "Thair is ane hundreth heir sittand by / That luiffis geaping als weill as I."Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dightobsolete
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