nonjoke

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ joke

Noun[edit]

nonjoke (plural nonjokes)

  1. A story, utterance, etc. that is not a joke.
    • 1982, Wallace I. Matson, Sentience:
      And if the computer did produce a joke, it could not separate it from the nonjokes.
    • 2008, Kendall L. Walton, Marvelous images: on values and the arts:
      Whether either the dumb joke or the nonjoke is funny is hardly a question that arouses the passions or that we much care about […]
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