英语词汇jape的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

jape. Jape, possibly from the French japer, “to bark like a dog,” combined in English with the French gaber, “to mock or deride,” meant to trick or deceive, or to joke, when first record- ed in the 14th century. Then, strangely enough, it lost this sense and came to mean “to seduce a woman” or “to have carnal in- tercourse with a woman.” Labeled an obscene word by the 16th century, jape was rarely used in print. Only 300 years later, in the 19th century, did it resurface with its original meaning, a jape becoming a joke or trick again.

词汇	jape
词源	jape. Jape, possibly from the French japer, “to bark like a dog,” combined in English with the French gaber, “to mock or deride,” meant to trick or deceive, or to joke, when first record- ed in the 14th century. Then, strangely enough, it lost this sense and came to mean “to seduce a woman” or “to have carnal in- tercourse with a woman.” Labeled an obscene word by the 16th century, jape was rarely used in print. Only 300 years later, in the 19th century, did it resurface with its original meaning, a jape becoming a joke or trick again.
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