Word to the Wise: Jape

To "jape" (JAPE) - from the French for "chatter" - is to joke or make fun of.

Example (as used by Mike Underwood in the Evening Gazette): "One elderly Englishman, complete with tweed suit and cane, japed to a passport control officer: ‘We’re not all hooligans you know.’"

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