不及物动词

名词

1. 笑话；打趣；玩笑
A jest is something that you say that is intended to be amusing.

2. 说笑话；开玩笑；打趣
If you jest, you tell jokes or say amusing things.

1. activity characterized by good humor

Synonym: jokejocularity

2. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

e.g. he told a very funny joke
he knows a million gags
thanks for the laugh
he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest
even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point

Synonym: jokegaglaughjape