jape

It was clearly meant to be a sycophantic gesture, but the jape backfired like a blocked Victorian shotgun.

The wink and gasp of Angus Jones as that flagrant vintage seared his throat ended the gentle jape as far as I was concerned.

It made a new game for him, you see, amusing and rather flattering as well, the kind of a jape he was all too apt at.

One of the smoking-room humorists mocked his accent and ventured a crude jape.

And when I say this, I do jape with words, and may hap ye understond me not.

I'm goin' to jape a bit with our friend, a' la 'Molly' Fairburn.