late 14c., "to trick, beguile, jilt," perhaps from Old French japer "to howl, bawl, scream," of echoic origin, or from Old French gaber "to mock, deride." Phonetics suits the former, but sense the latter explanation. Took on a slang sense mid-15c. of "have sex with," and disappeared from polite usage. Revived in harmless Middle English sense of "say or do something in jest" by Scott, etc. Related: Japed; japing.
jape (n.)
early 14c., "trick, deceit," later "a joke, a jest" (late 14c.); see jape (v.). By mid-14c. it meant "frivolous pastime," by 1400, "bawdiness."
例文
1. Even a schoolboy 's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point.
小さな男性の戯言にもいくつかの真義があるかもしれない。
2.He became the public jape in school，because he overreached when imitating others.
彼はトラの犬を描いて学校でみんなの笑いものになった。
3.Your experiments are aided by Jape ，which can operate as both inquisitor and oracle.
あなたの実験は、能尋問官と神託所としてジョークを言うのに助けられています。
4.Sports competition is competition of science and technology,be afraid is not jape .