antijoke

noun

Etymology

From anti- + joke.

  1. derived from *yek-
  2. derived from *yokos
  3. derived from *jokos
  4. prefixed as antijoke — “anti + joke

Definitions

  1. A sentence or story that subverts the expectation of a joke, often by being deliberately…

    A sentence or story that subverts the expectation of a joke, often by being deliberately unfunny or surreal.

    • Thank Christ for Carlton. My secret. My lifeline. The inventor of the antijoke. I kid you not. He postulated a category of things that don't make you laugh which he called the antijoke.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antijoke. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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