Joe Miller
noun
Roget 842:
wit,
humor,
wittiness;
sense of humor;
attic wit,
attic salt;
atticism†;
salt,
esprit,
point,
fancy,
whim,
drollery,
pleasantry.
farce,
buffoonery,
fooling,
tomfoolery;
shenanigan [U.S.],
harlequinade
etc.
599†;
broad farce,
broad humor;
fun,
espieglerie [Fr.];
vis comica [Lat.].
jocularity;
jocosity,
jocoseness†;
facetiousness;
waggery,
waggishness;
whimsicality;
comicality
etc.
853.
banter,
badinage,
retort,
repartee,
smartness,
ready wit,
quid-pro-quo;
ridicule
etc.
856.
jest,
joke,
jape,
jibe;
facetiae [Lat.],
levity,
quips and cranks;
capital joke;
canorae nugae [Lat.];
standing jest,
standing joke,
private joke,
conceit,
quip,
quirk,
crank,
quiddity,
concetto†,
plaisanterie [Fr.],
brilliant idea;
merry thought,
bright thought,
happy thought;
sally;
flash of wit,
flash of merriment;
scintillation;
mot [Fr.],
mot pour rire [Fr.];
witticism,
smart saying,
bon-mot,
jeu d'esprit [Fr.],
epigram;
jest book;
dry joke,
quodlibet,
cream of the jest.
word-play,
jeu de mots [Fr.];
play of words,
play upon words;
pun,
punning;
double entente,
double entendre [Fr.]
etc.
(ambiguity)
520;
quibble,
verbal quibble;
conundrum
etc.
(riddle)
533;
anagram,
acrostic,
double acrostic,
trifling,
idle conceit,
turlupinade†.
old joke,
tired joke,
flat joke,
Joe Miller†.
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Roget 844:
humorist,
wag,
wit,
reparteeist†,
epigrammatist,
punster;
bel esprit,
life of the party;
wit-snapper,
wit-cracker,
wit-worm;
joker,
jester,
Joe Miller†,
drole de corps†,
gaillard†,
spark;
bon diable [Fr.];
practical joker.
buffoon,
farceur [Fr.],
merry-andrew,
mime,
tumbler,
acrobat,
mountebank,
charlatan,
posturemaster†,
harlequin,
punch,
pulcinella†,
scaramouch†,
clown;
wearer of the cap and bells,
wearer of the motley;
motley fool;
pantaloon,
gypsy;
jack-pudding,
jack in the green,
jack a dandy;
wiseacre,
wise guy,
smartass [Coll.];
fool
etc.
501.
zany,
madcap;
pickle-herring,
witling†,
caricaturist,
grimacier†;
persifleur†.
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