Middle English Dictionary Entry
jāping(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | jāping(e ger. Also jappinge, ȝaping. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Joking, mockery, making sport; (b) trifling, foolery; (c) ~ stikke, a laughingstock, butt.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Wycl.MPl.(Add 24202)50 : Greet drede and gret effectuel loove suffrith no pleyinge nor japyng with hym.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)394 : We mowe forbere certeyn vsis of oure outward wittis..of lauȝing, of japing, and of bourding.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)233/21 : A low medow where lay many lordys..with lawghyng and japyng and many lowde wordys.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)603/21 : Sir Dagonet the foole chaced kynge Marke thorowoute the foreste..there was grete lawghynge and japyng at kynge Marke.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)342 : Leue yowur derysyon & yowur japynge! I must nedis labure.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)6135 : Generides in Iapyng said agayn, 'What sey ye now?'
- a1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)55/27 : He was..good mette-yeuer, large and fre..and of grete Solace in Iapynge [a1525 Dub: Iappynge].
b
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.410 : Sum men have childis wille, þat feden her wittis wiþ sensible þingis and ȝaping [vr. japing] of childis gamen, as ȝif þei weren foolis.
c
- a1400 Wycl.MPl.(Add 24202)50 : How mowen thei [miracle plays] be more takyn in idil than whanne thei ben maad mennus japynge stikke, as when thei ben pleyid of japeris?