The joke

Definition

joke / dʒǝƱk / n ၁။ ရယ္စရာ။ ဟာသ။ ျပက္လံုး။ tell (sb) a joke ❍ have a joke with sb ❍ cracking jokes with one's friends ❍ I don't get (ie understand) the joke. ၂။ က်ီစယ္ျခင္း။ play a joke on sb ❍ I only did it as a joke. See also PRACTICAL JOKE ၃။ [sing] ရယ္ဖြယ္။ ဟာသ။ His attempts at cooking are a complete joke. v ~ (with sb) (about sth) ရယ္စရာေျပာသည္။ ျပက္လံုး ထုတ္သည္။ ဟာသလုပ္သည္။ I was only joking (ie I did not mean what I said). ❍ He joked about the time he fell into the river. ❏ be no joke ; be/ get beyond a joke [ IDM ] ေပါ့ ေသးေသးမဟုတ္။ က်ီစားရင္း လြန္လာသည္။ Trying to find a job these days is no joke, I can tell you. ❍ His teasing is getting beyond a joke. ❏ jokey adj ေျပာင္စပ္စပ္။ ေနာက္ေတာက္ေတာက္။ a jokey tone of voice. ❏ jokingly adv ရယ္ရႊန္းဖတ္ရႊန္း။ ရယ္စရာအျဖစ္။ ❏ the joke’s on sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ့္႐ႉးကိုယ္ပတ္၍ ကိုယ္ပင္အ႐ူးျဖစ္သည္။ ❏ make a joke about/ of sb/sth [ IDM ] ေထာင္တန္သည့္ စကား ရယ္ေပါ့ျဖစ္ရသည္။ ❏ take a joke [ IDM ] အေျပာင္အစခံႏိုင္သည္။ The trouble with Paula is she can't take a joke. ❏ you are/ must be/ have to be joking [ IDM ] နားရိွလို႔သာ ၾကားလိုက္ရတယ္။ ‘Paul’s passed his driving test. ' 'You must be joking __ he can't even steer straight!'

Examples

1. Is this some kind of stupid joke?
2. Greg sprayed her with water as a joke.
3. [make/crack a joke] : The men all sat there drinking beer and cracking jokes.
4. [play a joke on someone] : Stephen decided to play a joke on his teacher.
5. [have a joke with someone] : Sorry – I was only having a little joke with you.
6. [someone’s idea of a joke] : Hiding my car keys was her idea of a joke.
7. [tell a joke] : Soon the kids relaxed and were laughing and telling jokes.
8. [joke about] : He told us a great joke about a talking dog.
9. [sick joke] : A sick joke about a dog in a microwave oven
10. [get the joke] : Sorry – I don’t get the joke. Can you explain it?
11. The nurses thought it was all a huge joke.
12. English wine is sometimes considered a bit of a joke.
13. That price is just a joke!