JOKE

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joke I. substantiv

1. glumă, spirit; zeflemea;

it is no joke nu e glumă, e lucru serios;

in joke în glumă;

a mere joke o simplă glumă, doar a glumă;

the joke fell flat gluma n-a avut succes;

to make a joke a face o glumă, a glumi;

to play a joke on smb. a face o glumă pe socoteala cuiva; a-i juca o festă cuiva;

practical joke festă, renghi.

2. obiect al glumelor, batjocură.

joke II. verb A. intranzitiv

a glumi, a face spirite.

joke II. verb B. tranzitiv

a râde de, a tachina, a zeflemisi, a-şi bate joc de.

"I don't see where the joke comes in there either!" I said; and I did not feel particularly pleased with him for saying such things.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

This is one of HIS jokes, and no mistake.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

There are objections to the joke theory, no doubt, said he, but there are much stronger reasons against the other.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Oh!” she cried in evident embarrassment, “it all meant nothing; a mere joke among ourselves.”

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

What a good joke it will be!

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

She was convinced that Margaret had fixed on a person whose name she could not bear with composure to become a standing joke with Mrs. Jennings.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

"You'll have to go and thank him," said Jo, by way of a joke, for the idea of the child's really going never entered her head.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Familiar in varying degree with the sea, they took me as a sort of joke.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

They joked freely with one another, but seldom with him.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

No, no; I did not come to Bath to drive my sisters about; that would be a good joke, faith!

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)