jape

And when I say this, I do jape with words, and may hap ye understond me not.

I'm goin' to jape a bit with our friend, a' la 'Molly' Fairburn.

It made a new game for him, you see, amusing and rather flattering as well, the kind of a jape he was all too apt at.

Mr. Mackie, passing with his orange partner, had repeated his jape about the Ruthless Boaz.

Then for a moment we fell to jape and jesting; foolishly, for the Gods are always listening, and the Desert-Gods have long ears.

Presently, when they heard him snoring, they began asking each other in whispers what jape they could play off on him.

I am very sure he is your enemy,” Brilliana answered, sharply, “for he makes you his daily jape.

And when this jape is told another day I shall be halden a daffe or a Cokenay.