private joke
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]private joke (plural private jokes)
- Synonym of inside joke (“a joke that is understood or meant to be understood only by certain people who are aware of the details”)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English private joke.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]private joke m or f (plural private jokes)
- a private joke, an in-joke: a piece of humour understood only by a group of people
- 1994, Jean-Yves Pidoux, Langhoff à Lausanne: L’ouragan lent, Editions d’en bas, →ISBN, page 254:
- Après un private joke où, pour l’hilarité des initiés, il cite la première réplique de son entrée dans le Schnitzler – «Déjà de l’ambiance !» —, l’acteur cherche un personnage qui […]
- After an in-joke where, for the hilarity of the initiated, he quotes the first reply of his entry in the Schnitzler — “Already some atmosphere!” — the actor seeks a character who […]
- 2003, Justine Malle (translator), Greil Marcus (author), Dead Elvis: Chronique d’une obsession culturelle, Éditions Allia, →ISBN, page 35; original English from Greil Marcus, Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession, Harvard University Press (1999), →ISBN, page 22:
- Il faut y voir plus qu’une private joke de la part de Cohn.
- This is more than Cohn’s little in-joke.
- 2007, Didier Luccantoni, Croisière sans retour, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 71:
- L’accent grec était devenu un private joke au sein de l’équipe de croisière en faisant référence à l’âge d’or des croisières Bon-Temps quelques années auparavant lorsqu’ils […]
- The Greek accent had become a private joke among the Croisière team, referring to the golden age of the Bon-Temps Croisières some years earlier, when they […]
Usage notes
[edit]- This expression, being a loan-phrase, is frequently written in italics.
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