japeworthy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From jape + -worthy, apparently from Chaucer.
Adjective
[edit]japeworthy (comparative more japeworthy, superlative most japeworthy)
- (archaic, rare) Worthy of being japed, mockable.
- 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John, Bantam Books, published 1976, page 299:
- All over Europe, people were cracking the lewdest jests about them; no one could decide which of the two was the most japeworthy; […] .