Reverse Dictionary: JI – JOK

JIBE – nouns
– NANNICK an idle whim; a childish fancy or fear; a jibe …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NICK a cutting retort; a jibe, a jeer …1887 Sc. 
– SNOUCH a jeer, jibe, or scoff …c1780
jibe – verbs
– BETWIT †* to reproach; to taunt, to jibe …1661
 
JILT – person
– GILLET a giddy or flighty young woman; a jilt; sometimes a familiar or contemptuous term for a girl or young woman, a wench …1755 Sc. 
– JAMPHER a male jilt …1768 Sc.
– QUEER MORT a woman suffering from venereal disease; a dirty drab; a jilting wench …M17 UK criminals’ sl.
– SCOUFF a male jilt; a low scoundrel …1898 Sc.
jilt – verbs 
– BAG to jilt …1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BEGECK † to befool; to disappoint; to gull; to deceive; to jilt …a1513 obs. exc. Sc.
– BEGINK to cheat; to jilt …Bk1911 Sc.
– BEGOUK, BEGOWK to trick, to befool; to jilt …1862 Sc.
– BEGUNK to delude, to play a deceiving trick on, to ‘take in’; to cheat, do deceive; to jilt…1821 Sc.
– BELIRT † vb. to deceive, to beguile, to cheat, to befool; to jilt …c950 obs. exc. Sc.
– BLINK to jilt; to deceive …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOUNCE to jilt; to dismiss someone …1893 Amer. dial.
– CAN to get rid of, to expel, to discharge, to eject, to jilt, to dismiss; to discharge from employment …1905 Amer. sl.
– DEFROST to jilt …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– FIRE to reject, to jilt a person …1941 Amer. dial.
– FLAT to jilt …1871 sl.
– FLUFF OFF to jilt …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– GET THE MITTEN to be jilted …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– GIVE ONE THE BASKET to jilt …1940 Amer. dial.
– GIVE ONE THE BOUNCE to jilt or dismiss someone …1912 Amer. dial.
– GIVE ONE THE DITCH to jilt or dismiss one …1969 Amer. dial.
– GIVE ONE THE GRAND BOUNCE to jilt or dismiss someone …1894 Amer. dial.
– GIVE ONE THE MITTEN of a woman: to reject or dismiss a man’s invitation or proposal of marriage; to jilt …1842 Amer. dial.
– GIVE THE BAG to jilt or reject a suitor …1798 Amer. sl.
– GIVE THE BOUNCE to jilt or dismiss someone …1951 Amer. dial.
– GIVE THE FLUFF to jilt …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– GIVE THE FULLER to jilt …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– JAMPH to shuffle, to make false pretenses; to act the part of a male jilt …Bk1902 Sc.
– JILFER to jilt …1966 Amer. dial.
– KICK to reject or jilt a suitor; to turn someone down …1809 Amer. dial.
– KICK OUT to reject or jilt a suitor; to turn someone down …1941 Amer. dial.
– K.O. to jilt; ‘kiss off’ …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– LAY DOWN to jilt someone …c1955 Amer. dial.
– MITTEN to reject or dismiss a man’s invitation or proposal of marriage; to jilt …1873 Amer. dial.
– RENEAGUE to withdraw from an engagement; to jilt; to refuse; to deny …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SACK to jilt someone …1841 UK sl.
– SCONCE to jilt a woman …1825 Sc.
– SCONCE A WOMAN to jilt or slight her …Bk1904 Sc.
– SHOOT DOWN IN FLAMES to jilt …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– THROW IN THE AIR to jilt …1897 Amer. sl.
– TOSS IN THE AIR to jilt …1896 Amer. sl.
 
JILTED – person
– HADDICK a friend or lover discarded or jilted …Bk1997 Irish sl. 
jilted – verbs
– GET THE MITTEN to be refused as a lover; to be jilted …1844 Amer. dial.
– TAKE THE LACK to be slighted, jilted; used of a lover when he departs suddenly …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
 
JILTING – adjectives
– JAMPHING jilting, making false pretenses of courtship …Bk1902 Sc.
jilting – nouns 
– BEGINK a befooling or deluding trick; a piece of deception; a cheat; a jilting …1725 Sc.
– BEGOWK the act of jilting …1814 Sc.
– BEGUNK the act of jilting …1790 Sc.
– BLINK a jilting; ‘ the slip’ …Bk1911 Sc.
– FLAT a lover’s dismissal; a jilting …Bk1893 Amer. sl.
– JAMPHING the act of jilting or making false pretenses; applied to a male …Bk1902 Sc.
 
JINGLE – nouns
– RICKLE a rattle, a jingle …1867 Eng. dial.
jingle – verbs 
– JAMBLE † to jangle, to jingle, to ring, as bells …1715
– PLAY RICKING to rattle, to jingle …1861 Eng. dial.
– RICK to rattle, to jingle, to make a noise; to chatter …1740 Eng. dial.
– RICKLE to rattle, to jingle; to make a noise, to chatter …1863 Eng. dial.
– TING to ring, to tinkle, to jingle; to give the sound of a small bell …Bk1905 Sc.
– TINKLE to rhyme or jingle …1626
 
JINGLING – adjectives
– TINTINNABULANT ringing or tinkling as a small bell; jingling …1812
jingling – nouns 
– RICKING a rattling, a jingling noise …1873 Eng. dial.
– TINK-TANK used to express the sound of anything jingling, as of milk falling into a tin pail …1899 Sc.
 
JINX – nouns
– GRIS-GRIS a jinx, charm, spell, or magic force …1763 Amer. dial.
– MOZZ bad luck; a jinx 1924 Aust. sl.
jinx – verbs 
– MOJO to jinx or charm …1966 Amer. dial.
– MOZ to hinder, to interrupt someone; to jinx someone …c1920 Aust. sl.
– MOZZ to jinx someone; to bring bad luck to someone …1941 Aust. sl.
– MOZZLE to put a jinx on …1920s Aust. sl.
– PUT THE MOCKERS ON to frustrate someone’s plans; to jinx someone; to bring bad luck to …1949
 
JINXED – verbs
– HAVE THE MOCKERS ON to be jinxed or unlucky …1923
 
JITTERINESS – nouns
– JIMMIES, THE the fidgets, jitteriness; a fit of depression …1928 colloq.
 
JITTERS – nouns
– HEEBIE-JEEBIES the jitters; a sense of anxiety …1923 US sl.
– HEEBIES the jitters; a sense of anxiety …1926 US sl.
– KATZENJAMMER anxiety or jitters …20C US sl.
– PEADODDLES, THE the jitters, nervousness …1835 Amer. dial.
– PEADOODLES, THE the jitters, nervousness …1992 Amer. dial.
– PEEDOODLES, THE the jitters, nervousness …1995 Amer. dial.
– ST. VITUS’S DANCE nerves, jitters, shakes …20C sl.
 
JITTERY – nouns
– HEEB a jittery sensation; a fearful feeling; a sense of anxiety …1996 UK sl.
jittery – verbs
– GEEK UP to excite or stimulate a person; to make a person nervous or jittery …1984 US sl.
 
JOAN OF ARC
– PUCELLE † the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc …c1450 obs. ext. hist.
 
JOB – adjectives
– CUSHY of a job, situation, etc.: undemanding, easy; requiring little or no effort; later, involving little effort, but ample oe disproportionate rewards …1895 sl., orig. military usage
– HUMP-AND-JUMP of a job: physically demanding and fast-paced …1977 US sl.
job – nouns 
– ALPHABET JOB an easy assignment or task; a government civilian job …World War II Amer. sl.
– AROHA JOB a job done out of friendship without charge or at reduced rates …1985 NZ sl.
– BERTH a job; an appointment to a job …1778 sl.
– BLUDGE a period of lazy inactivity; also, a job needing no effort …1943 Aust. sl.
– DAY GIG a nonmusical job a musician is forced to take for need of money …1940s US Black sl.
– DAY JOB a conventional job, usually used to finance a person’s true interest or passion …1994 US sl.
– DIGS a job …1973 US sl.
– DOORKNOB a job …20C rhyming sl.
– EARN any job or plan that pays well, almost invariably criminal …1960s sl., orig. UK criminals’ usage
– EASY GO an unstrenuous job …1983 US sl.
– ELT a  heavy, laborious job …1907 Sc.
– GAFF 1. a job, an occupation …1910s sl.
2. a legitimate job, work …1910s sl.
– GIG work; any job or occupation …1950s Amer. sl.
– GOVERNMENT JOB personal work done on company time …1968 Amer. dial.
– GRAVY TRAIN a job requiring comparatively little work for good pay, benefits, etc. …sl.
– HAIM a job, usually tedious or unpleasant …1940s US Black sl.
– HARKANY a job …1895 Eng. dial.
– HAME a job; vocation …1972 Amer. dial.
– HOB-JOB an unskilled job, an odd job, e.g. holding horses, carrying parcels …L19 sl.
– HUSTLE a job, a means of earning a living …1940s US Black sl.
– JOBBISM the practice of corruptly turning a public office, trust, etc. to private gain or advantage; the perpetration of jobs …1807 nonce word 
– JOE JOB a menial or monotonous task; an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects …1948 colloq., chiefly Can.
– KIP a job …1920s Anglo-Irish
– LAY a job, a deal; a basic term for any enterprise (usually illegal) which brings a monetary return …L18 cant
– LURK a job or occupation …1916 Aust. & NZ sl.
– MCJOB a pointless, usually menial job with no prospects or job satisfaction …1980s sl. orig. US
– a job or occupation …1948 sl.
– NICE LITTLE EARNER any job or plan that pays well, almost invariably criminal …1960s sl., orig. UK criminals’ usage
– RACKET a job, trade, or profession …1891 UK sl.
– SCODGES chores, dirty domestic jobs …1969 Sc.
– SITE a job or occupation …1930 US nautical usage
– SPELL JOB a job of uncertain or indefinite duration …1980s Ulster usage
– TACK an agreement, compact, bargain; hence, a post, situation, a steady job …1718 Sc.
– TANTLING-JOB a small, trifling job; one that does not require all one’s energy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNCLE BOB a job …1990s rhyming sl.
job – person
– BEACH-COMBER one who hangs about the seashore or river-band on the lookout for jobs …1885 Eng. nautical sl.
– CAD an odd job man – a messenger or errand boy …1835 Eng 
– CADDIE, CADDY a boy or man on the lookout for odd jobs …M18
– CADGER one who does odd jobs …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– FACTOTUM an odd-job man; a handyman; a man of all work …1584
– GRAVE-JUMPER someone who takes another’s job, seat, etc., with indecent haste …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– GRAVY-RIDER a person with an easy job …1920s US sl.
– HOB-JOBBER a man or boy walking the streets on the look out for small jobs …M19 sl.
– JACK a serving-man or male attendant; a labourer; a man who does odd jobs, etc. …1836-7
– JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES – a person who can do many different things but specializes in none – one who has a smattering knowledge of all crafts – an odd job man – a handyman …1618
– JACK OF ALL TRADES AND MASTER OF NONE – a person who can do many different things but specializes in none – one who has a smattering knowledge of all crafts – an odd job man – a handyman …Bk1958
– JACK OF ALL WORKS a jack-of-all-trades; an odd job man; a handyman…1820
– JIM-HAND an odd-job man …1927 Amer. dial.
– JOBLER † one who does jobs or small pieces of work …1662 nonce word 
– LACKEY-BOY a hired hand; an odd-job man for the farm …Bk1992 Amer. 
– LARY † a servant, a drudge, an odd-job man …1825 Sc.
– LIFER a person who intends to work at the same job until retirement; a careerist …1970 Amer. sl.
– MOONLIGHTER someone who works at more than one job …1957 sl.
– NATTLER one who gets his living by doing odd jobs …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ODD MAN n. a man employed on a farm to do odd jobs; a workman who does odd jobs …1750 Eng. dial.
– SCOURY a drudge; an odd-job man …1741 Sc. 
– TIFFLER one who does little jobs cleverly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UBIQUITARY † a journeyman of all trades; an odd-job man; a handyman …1615
– USHER OF THE BACK DOOR the odd-job man in a great house …L19 UK society sl. 
– WOOD-AND-WATER JOEY an odd-job man …1926 Aust. sl.
job – verbs
– BULLCOOK to do odd jobs …1956 Amer. dial.
– CADGE to do odd jobs …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAG to idle, to potter about; to do odd jobs …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CARRY A LAZY MAN’S LOAD to attempt to complete a job too soon …1957 Amer. dial.
– DAFFLE to do odd jobs, any sort of light work …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DEADHEAD to work at a useless job …1958 Amer. dial.
– GET A NIBBLE to get an easy job …Bk1902 tailors’ sl.
– HIT THE SIDEWALKS to walk the streets searching for a job …20C US sl.
– JIM (AROUND) to do odd jobs; to loaf about, to potter, to trifle …1912 Amer. dial.
– KAG to idle, to potter about; to do odd jobs …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– MOONLIGHT to have more than one job …1957 sl., orig. US
– NESTLE to trifle; to do light work or odd jobs …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ODD to work at odd jobs …1861 Eng. dial.
– PACK IT IN to give up one’s job …L1940s sl., chiefly manual workers’ ​
– PAUCHLE to do odd jobs for a gratuity, to earn tips …1898 Sc.
– SCODGE to do rough menial work; to act as a drudge; to do odd jobs …1808 Sc.
– SING OLD ROSE AND BURN THE BELLOWS to rejoice over the termination of a long and troublesome job …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– TALK SHOP of people in the same trade or profession: to discuss one’s job;  …M19 sl.
– TIFFLE to do any small fidgety job requiring care or nicety …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TIFLE to do any small fidgety job requiring care or nicety …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TINKLE to do odd jobs; to do anything imperfectly; to repair awkwardly …1869 Eng. dial.
job – phrases
– SITTING NEXT TO NELLY learning an occupation on the job by observing how others do it …1963 sl.
 
JOBLESS – person
– DEADBEAT of people: a failure, a down-and-out, an impoverished person; a person down on their luck; a jobless and homeless person …M19 sl., orig. US
 
JOCKEY – person
– AUTUMN LEAF a jockey who continually falls …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– CAPTAIN ARMSTRONG a dishonest jockey …1864 turf sl.
– CLEANSKIN in horse racing: a jockey who has never been disqualified in a race …1989 Aust. sl.
– COPING CULL a horse jockey, or probably a dealer in horses …c1740 sl.
– DAGGER a jockey’s general helper …c1925 Aust. sporting sl.
– GENTLEMAN JOCKEY in horse racing: an amateur jockey, esp. in a steeplechase event …1947 US sl.
– HACK DRIVER in horse racing: a jockey …1951 US sl.
– HERDER in horse racing: a jockey who forces the other horses to bunch up behind him …1951 US sl.
– HICKEY HOCKEY a jockey …1949 Aust. rhyming sl.
– ICEMAN in horse racing: a jockey who rides without using the whip or vigorous kicks …1989 Aust. sl. 
– JOCK a jockey; a rider in horse races …L18 colloq.
– JOCKETTE a female jockey …M20 rare
– MONEY RIDER a jockey who is well-known for riding winning horses …1951 Amer. sl.
– MONKEY a jockey …2013 Aust. sl.
– PIGSKIN ARTIST a jockey …c1912 Aust. sl.
– RACE RIDER in horse racing: a jockey …Bk1985 
– PUNK an inferior prizefighter, jockey, pool player, etc. …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– RANK RIDER a jockey …L17 sl.
jockey – verbs 
– ACEY-DEUCEY of a jockey: to ride with the inside stirrup lower than the outside stirrup …1948 US sl.
– CALL A CAB of a jockey: to wave one arm to balance oneself crossing a fence …1940s racing sl.
– CALL FOR A CAB of a jockey: to make jerky arm movements as he battles to remain in the saddle …1961 UK sl.
 
​JOCKSTRAP – nouns
– BALL-BAG a jockstrap …1960s US sl.
– BALLBASKET a jockstrap …1968 US sl.
– FAGGOT’S LUNCH BOX a jockstrap; an athletic supporter …1964 US sl.
– JOCK a jock-strap …1952 Amer. sl.
 
JOCOSE – adjectives
– BOURDFUL † full of jesting or sport; jocular, jocose, sportive …1388
– JOCOCIOUS jocose, mirthful; humorous, fond of joking …1790 Eng. dial.
– LEPID * pleasant in speech or behaviour, jocose, facetious, amusing, witty …1619
 
JOCULAR – adjectives
– BOURDFUL † full of jesting or sport; jocular, jocose, sportive …1388
– GAMING † sportive, jocular …1552
– JOCATORY † characterized by joking; jocular, jesting, merry …1576
– JOCOSERIOUS half jocular, half serious; blending jokes and serious matters …M17
– JOCULATORY † having the character of a jester; uttered in jest; jocular, droll, humorous, sportive, merry, jesting …1623
 
JOCULARITY – nouns
– FUNNIOSITY * humour, jocularity …1876
– WAGGERY mischievous drollery, practical joking; jocularity …1594
– WAGGISHNESS sportive mischief; jocularity of speech or behaviour …1625
 
JOCUND – adjectives
– LUSTY † of persons and their attributes: joyful, merry, jocund; cheerful, lively …a1225
 
JOG – nouns
– BEVIE a jog, a push …Bk1911 Sc.
– CACHE a shake, jog …1790 Sc.
– CADGE a shake, jog …1790 Sc.
– DIDDLE a shake, a jog; a dandle …1867 Sc.
– HOBBLEDEGEE a jog trot; a pace between a walk and a run …L18 sl.
– HOBBLEDEJEE a jog trot; a pace between a walk and a run …L18 sl.
– SPANISH TROT an easy gait; a jog …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
jog – verbs 
– DIDDLE to jog up and down, to make short motions and turns as in fiddling …1864 Sc.
 
JOGGING – adjectives
– BUMPITY-BUMP jolting or jogging to and fro or up and down …1874
jogging – adverbs 
– JOG-JOG with a jogging motion or pace …L18
 
JOGGLE – verbs
– KEGGLE to rock unsteadily, to joggle …1951 Sc.
 
JOIN – verbs
– ACCOUPLE † to join one thing to another; to couple …1486
– ADJECT to annex, to add or join …1432-50
– ADJOIN † to join on; to join or unite a person or thing to another …c1325
– ADUNITE † to unite or join to …1662
– CLIMB ON THE BANDWAGON to join or give support to a party or movement that seems to be assured of success
– FALL IN to join; to stay …1952 US sl.
– FILL IN to join or take part; to add or invite to join …1904 Amer. criminals’ sl.
– GATHER † to join or unite; to put together, to form by union …c725
– GET ON THE BANDWAGON to join or give support to a party or movement that seems to be assured of success
– JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON to join or give support to a party or movement that seems to be assured of success
– LEAGUE † to bind, to connect, to join …c1645
– MAKE A FILL to join in association …1914 Amer. criminals’ sl.
– MAKE ONE to join in with, such as for a drink …1970s sl.
– MARROW † 1. to join, to associate; to match, to pair …1488
2. to couple, to wed …1823 Sc.
– PAN to join or unite together …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUEME * to join or fit closely …1501 Sc.
– SAM 1. † to join or fasten together; to amass, to hoard up …c1000
2. † ​to bring together; to join in marriage, love, friendship, etc. …c1200
– TACK to join, to unite, esp. in a loose or slack manner …1858 Sc.
– TAG † to fasten, stitch, or tack together; to join …1681
– YOKE to join; to match; to marry …1789 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
JOINED – adjectives
– ADJECT † annexed, joined …1432-50
– ADJOINATE †* joined, allied …1470
– ADJOINED † joined, united …1509
– ADJOINT † united, joined …c1325
– ADUNATE †* united, joined in one …1470
 
JOINER – person
– HACKSPYEL – a useless joiner or cartwright …Bk1893 Eng. dial.
 
JOIN IN – verbs
– BEAR A PART to join in …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
join in – phrases
– PULL UP A FOX HOLE AND FALL IN an invitation to join in …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
 
JOINING – nouns
– ACCOUPLING † the act of joining two things into a couple or pair; coupling; esp. union in marriage …1525
 
JOINT – adjectives
– JOINT-SICK † suffering from pain in the joints; diseased in the joints …a1618
joint – nouns 
– BAND a hinge or joint …1733 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
JOIST – nouns
– THEAL † a board, a plank, a joist …1609 Eng. dial.
– THEALE † a board, a plank, a joist …1609 Eng. dial. obs.
 
JOKE – adjectives
– HAIRY of a joke or story: old, out-of-date …1960 Amer. dial.
– LEDGER † of a joke, jest, etc.: constantly in use; ‘standing’, ‘stock’ …1655
joke – adverbs 
– FOR LAUGHS as a joke; for the fun of it …c1950 colloq.
– ONLY FOR LAUGHS as a joke; for the fun of it …c1950 colloq.
joke – nouns  (for items used to tease people as a joke, see NON-EXISTENT)
– BAM a story intended to impose upon the credulous; a hoax or imposition; a trick, a joke …1762 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BADGER FIGHT a practical joke in which an inexperienced person plays referee in a fake fight between a badger and a dog …1929 Amer. dial.
– BELLY a joke …1920s sl.
– BELLY LAUGH a joke …1920s sl.
– BOURD a jest, a joke …Bk1911 Sc.
– BREAK-OFF a joke at another’s expense …Bk1904 Amer. college sl.
– BUTTON the punch line of a joke; a zinger …Bk2006 US sl.
– CAGMAG a practical joke, mischief …19C Eng. dial.
– CAN OF COKE a joke …1990s rhyming sl.
– CHESTNUT an old, often repeated joke, story, musical composition, etc. …c1885 US colloq.
– COD a joke, a hoax, a parody …20C sl., orig. Irish
– COD-ON a practical joke …20C Irish sl.
– DANNY LA RUE anything blue, as a snooker ball, a dirty joke, or a pornographic video …Bk2004 Brit. rhyming sl.
– DERISION a practical joke; a hoax …1822 Sc.
– FAD a game, a joke …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FAKE play, amusement; a joke …1787 Eng. dial.
– FANTIGUE a vagary, a fancy, a whim; a joke, a ‘lark’ ..1894 Eng. dial.
– FARCE a funny story, a joke …1928 Sc.
– FUNNIMENT a comical action, remark, etc.; a joke, a witticism …1826
– FUNNINESS * a funny saying, a joke, etc.; a witticism …1838
– FUNNIOSITY a comical action, remark, etc.; a joke, a witticism; also, a peculiarity, an oddity …1871 colloq.
– FUNNY a joke, a witticism; usually in plural …1852
– FUNNYISM a joke or witticism …1839
– GAG a jest, a joke …1863
– GAME † a joke, a jest …a1393
– GAMMET fun, frolic, sport; a game, joke, whim, trick …1865 Eng. dial.
– GAMMOCK a joke, a trick, a prank; rough play …1819 Eng. dial.
– GAMMON a joke, trick; play, sport, merriment …1869 Eng. dial.
– GAMUT fun, frolic, sport; a game, joke, whim, trick …1865 Eng. dial.
– GEGG a trick, a hoax, a practical joke …1855 Sc.
– GOOF a joke; a surprise …1970s US sl.
– GUT-BUSTER a hilarious joke; something very funny …1985 Amer. sl.
– GUY a trick or hoax; a prank, a jest, a joke …1854 Amer. sl.
– HAYSEED an old joke that isn’t funny any more …1969 Amer. dial.
– HORSE an unexpected turn of fortune against someone; a rough joke at someone’s expense; a humiliating joke …1889 Amer. sl.
– HUMMER a joke, a prank …1990 US sl.
– JAPE † a device to amuse; a merry or idle tale; a jest, a joke, a gibe …c1340
– JAUL a joke, a stunt, a game …1980s S. Afr.
– JAWL a joke, a stunt, a game …1980s S. Afr.
– JIG a low joke …Bk1896 sl.
– JOE a book of jokes; a joke, esp. a stale joke …L18
– JOE MILLER a jest or joke, esp. a stale joke …1829 
– JOL a joke, a stunt, a game …1980s S. Afr.
– LARRIE jesting, joking, a practical joke, a hoax …1880 Sc.
j- LEG PULL an attempt to mislead or deceive others in a playful way or as a joke; a trick or hoax, a practical joke …1893
– LEPIDITY † facetiousness, wit, a jest, a joke …1647
– MANK a prank, a trick; a practical joke …1878 Eng. dial.
– MARLOCK a prank, frolic, a gambol, a lark; a playful trick, a practical joke; a piece of fun or mischief …1864 Eng. dial.
– MAWK a whim, a foolish fancy; a joke; a trick …1790 Eng. dial.
– MAXIMS pranks, tricks, practical jokes …1867 Eng. dial.
– MAY-GAMES tricks, frolics, antics, practical jokes; whims, fancies …1825 Eng. dial.
– MAYLOCK a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke …1864 Eng. dial.
– MOGE; MOGUE a joke, a humbug, a trick …1888 Eng. dial.
– MORG a joke, a humbug, a trick …1888 Eng. dial.
– MORLOCK a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke …1864 Eng. dial.
– NAP a joke, jest; fun …1885 Sc.
– OAK a joke …L19 rhyming sl.
– OLDIE any old thing or person; an old joke, story, song, or movie; an old man …20C US sl.
– OLD SAW an old joke or story …20C US sl.
– ONE 1. a joke on, an act of teasing; a hoax …M19 sl.
2. an anecdote, an amusing story, a joke …L19 sl.
– PAVIE a trick, a prank, a practical joke …1698 Sc.
– PLISKY a mischievous escapade; a trick, a prank; a practical joke; a frolic …1786 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– PUNCH LINE the last line, sentence, or part of a joke that gives it meaning and humour …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– PUT-ON a joke, a hoax …M19 sl.
– RAISE a practical joke; a piece of fun and horseplay at another’s expense; a jest …1866 Sc.
– RALLERY †* a jesting or playful action; a joke …1653
– RAM a practical joke …M19 US campus sl.
– RAT FUCK a practical joke …1960s Amer. sl.
– R.F. a practical joke …1960s Amer. sl.
– RIDICULE † a practical joke …1822 Sc.
– RIDICULOSITY * ridiculousness; a ridiculous matter; anything that arouses laughter; a jest or joke …1725 rare or arch.
– RIG a joke, a prank, a trick, a frolic …1858 Amer. dial.
– SANDY a bluff, a deception, a trick, a joke …1916 Amer. dial.
– SELL a cheat; a practical joke; something that disappoints expectations …1838 sl.
– SIDE-SPLITTER a joke; often ironic usage …M19 sl.
– SKIT a trick; a hoax; a practical joke …1815 chiefly Eng. dial.
– SKITE a trick; a hoax; a practical joke …1804 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– SNAPPER the point or risible climax of a story or joke …1857 Amer. sl.
– TEAR a piece of fun, a frolic, a spree, a lark, joke, banter …1909 Sc.
– VAKE play, amusement; a joke …1787 Eng. dial.
– WAGGERY a piece of mischievous jesting; a practical joke …1604
– YACK a joke; a laugh …1951 US sl.
– YAK a laugh; a joke …1951 US sl.
joke – person  (includes JOKER, JOKING)
– BLAGUEUR one who talks pretentiously; a joker or teller of stories …1883
– DISTILLER one who cannot take a joke …L19 Aust.
– FARCEUR a joker, a wag …1828
– FUNSTER a person who plays pranks, or one who likes to joke around; a comedian; also, a fun or light-hearted person …1788 colloq.
– GAGGER a joker; in a theatrical context, esp. of comedians, one who ad-libs …1841 UK sl.
– GAGGERIST a gag writer, a joke writer…1956
– GAGGIST a joke-teller …1890 UK sl.
– GAG-MAN a deviser or writer of gags; also a comedian …1928
– GAGSTER one who makes ‘gags’ or jokes; a gag-writer or a comedian …1935 colloq.
– GAG-WRITER a deviser or writer of gags; also a comedian …1959
– GAMEMAN † a jester, a joker, an entertainer …1340
– GEGGEE the person on whom a joke is played …1856 Sc.
– GUY a comical or joking fellow; hence, a smart alec …c1862 Amer. sl.
– HARD CHAW an irrepressible joker …1966 Irish sl.
– HARD DOER an amusing, exciting, eccentric and/or resolute person; a ‘character’; typically one who is tough and adventurous; a joker, a wag, a comedian; one who never gives up despite any circumstances; a person who struggles valiantly against difficulties …1894 Aust. & NZ 
– JAPER one who japes or jokes; a professional jester …1377
– JOKE-BOX one who plays jokes on people …1965 Amer. dial.
– MARLOCKER one who plays a practical joke …1865 Eng. dial.
– MERRIMENT a professional clown; a comical person, one quick at making jokes …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RIG an amusing sort of chap; a joker; a prankster; an outrageous person …1975 Amer. dial.
– SAD CASE one who tells unamusing jokes …1949 Aust. & US teen sl.
– SAD DOG a merry fellow, a gay man; a man given to joking …Bk1865 sl. 
– SHAVER a humorous person, a joker …now Eng. dial.
– TIFF-TAFFLE to talk in a bantering manner; to joke; to make repartee …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WAG a buffoon; a jester; a habitual joker; a merry droll; anyone ludicrously mischievous …1584
– WISECRACKER one who makes wisecracks; a joker …1924 Amer. sl. 
joke – verbs
– BALLYRAG to play a practical joke; to mob or hustle a person …Bk1898 Brit. sl.
– BAM to hoax, to practice on the credulity of; to deceive, to delude, to impose upon, to play a joke or trick on a person…1738 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– CACK to joke, to have a laugh, to laugh …1990s Aust. & US sl.
– CASE to joke about another’s characteristics or foibles …1971 Amer. dial.
– CHAFF to talk nonsense, to joke; to banter, to tease, to make fun of; to trick, to deceive …1872 Amer. dial.
– CHESTNUT to come out with an oft-repeated joke, anecdote, etc. …1900s sl.
– DRAW THROUGH THE WATER WITH A CAT to practice a practical joke …1614
– FUNK ON A DUNK to be insincere; to joke …1990s US Black sl.
– GAG to jest, to joke …1942
– GAMMET to play, to frolic, to amuse oneself; to play off practical jokes; to deceive, to hoax, to take in …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GAMMON to joke, to sport, to play; to tease amicably …1888 Eng. dial.
– GET A RIG ON to play a joke on, to make sport of …1892 Amer. dial.
– GREEN ON to tease, to make a fool of; to annoy with practical jokes; to outwit …1887 Amer. dial.
– GREEN OUT to tease, to make a fool of; to annoy with practical jokes; to outwit …1887 Amer. dial.
– HACK to joke, to tease gently …1950s US sl.
– HACK ABOUT to joke, to tease …1950s US sl.
– HACK OFF to joke, to tease …1950s US sl.
– HAVE A RIG ON to play a joke on, to make sport of …1859 Amer. dial.
– HAVE HAIR ON (IT) of a joke: to be old, worn-out, or out-of-date …1966 Amer. sl.
– HORSE to indulge in rough jokes or horseplay; to fool around; hence, to waste time in trifling activity; also, to philander (now usually with ‘around’)…1900 US sl.
– JAPE to say or do something in jest or mockery; to jest, to joke, to jeer; to make game, to make fun, to sport …c1374
– JAUL to tease, to joke …1970s S. Afr.
– JAWL to tease, to joke …1970s S. Afr.
– JEFF to tease, to joke with …1960s US prison sl.
– JOL to tease, to joke …1970s S. Afr.
– PLAY CAPS AND BELLS to act like a prankster; to play tricks or jokes on people …1969 Amer. dial.
– POP OFF to joke …1930s sl.
– POP OFF AT THE MOUTH to joke …1930s sl.
– PUT ON to tease; to joke with ; to deceive for one’s own gain …M19 sl.
– ROT to talk nonsense; to joke; to fool about …L19 arch. sl.
– RUN A RIG ON to play a joke on, to make sport of …1858 Amer. dial.
– SCOG to argue, to dispute, to quarrel, to scold, to make ironical jokes …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCONCE to joke, to ridicule; to scold …1884 N. Ireland & Eng. dial.
– TAKE THE PISS OUT OF of a situation or statement: to appear ludicrous, to be a joke …1980s sl.
– WHIP THE CAT to practice a practical joke …1847
joke – phrases
– I FELL OFF MY DINOSAUR used to indicate that a joke is outdated …1965 Amer. dial.
– I FELL OUT OF MY CRADLE used to indicate that a joke is outdated …1965 Amer. dial.
– I FELL OUT OF MY CRIB used to indicate that a joke is outdated …1965 Amer. dial.
– I FELL OUT OF MY CRIB LAUGHING used to indicate that a joke is outdated …1965 Amer. dial.
– I FELL OUT OF MY HIGH CHAIR used to indicate that a joke is outdated …1965 Amer. dial.
– JOKE OVER a phrase used by the victim of a practical joke who wishes to indicate that they are not amused …1960s sl.
 
JOKING – adjectives
– ANTIC clownish, amusing, full of tricks; given to fun, capers, or pranks; joking, playful …1902 Amer. dial.
– ANTIC AS A JAYBIRD clownish, amusing, full of tricks; given to fun, capers, or pranks; joking, playful …1917 Amer. dial.
– CRACKING BUT FACKING conveying hard factual information in the guise of jokes and humour …1930s US Black sl.
– GAG joking …1990s sl.
– JOCATORY † characterized by joking; jocular, jesting, merry …1576
– JOCOCIOUS jocose, mirthful; humorous, fond of joking …1790 Eng. dial.
– OFF-TAKING scoffing, mocking,  sarcastic, joking, waggish …1877 Sc.
joking – nouns 
– CHAFF-CUTTING joking, jesting, playing on words …Bk1890 sl.
– LARRIE jesting, joking, a practical joke, a hoax …1880 Sc.
– RAMSACKING joking, rough usage …1897 Eng. dial.
– RUNNING teasing or joking at another’s expense; a ribbing …1833 US colloq.
– WAGGERY mischievous drollery, practical joking; jocularity …1594
– WAGSHIP † waggery, waggishness,  mischief, practical joking …1607