joker
English
/ˈdʒəʊkə/, /ˈdʒoʊkɚ/
noun
Definitions
- A person who makes jokes.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A jester.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand) A man.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
Etymology
Suffix from English joke.
Origin
English
joke
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antijoke English
- joke English
- jokee English
- jokefest English
- jokefic English
- jokeful English
- jokeless English
- jokelike English
- jokely English
- jokesmith English
- jokesome English
- jokest English
- jokester English
- jokette English
- jokish English
- joky English
- metajoke English
- nonjoke English
- outjoke English
- jokeri Finnish
- iocus Latin
- dzsóker Hungarian
- dzsókerek Hungarian
- joker Dutch, Flemish
- jokken Dutch, Flemish
- joker French
- джокер Russian
- jóquer Portuguese
- joker Swedish
- ジョーカー Japanese
- ジョーク Japanese
- dżoker Polish
- joke Danish
- joker Danish
- džoker Serbo-Croatian
- џокер Serbo-Croatian
- jòquer Catalan, Valencian
- djók Icelandic
- djóka Icelandic
- joker Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- dyoker Cebuano
- jôc Welsh
- џокер Macedonian
- جيكر Gulf Arabic