Joke and Tale

Joke

Joke noun - Something said or done to cause laughter.

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Tale and joke are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tale" instead a noun "Joke".

Nearby Words: joking, joker, jokey, joked, jokingly

Tale noun - A work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel.

Usage example: the oft-told tale of Sleeping Beauty

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Joke and tale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Joke" instead a noun "Tale".

old	old joke	old tale
long	long joke	long tale
particular	particular joke	particular tale
similar	similar joke	similar tale
Other adjectives: typical, short, standard, original, many, single, simple, popular, actual, entire, real, little, dark, famous, final, classic, hilarious, last, ongoing.

Then a fairy tale book is shown with the opposite of the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" story, where an entire village is destroyed after a perfectly honest boy cries wolf as a joke.

Source: Crying Wolf
In a widely-circulated joke based on this tale, 3 agents are candidates, one has a fiancé, one is a newlywed, and one has been married for ten years.

Source: A Real Man Is a Killer
One joke recounts the tale of a kindly shopkeeper and a little kid named Billy (other variations have it as the village idiot and a tourist).

Source: Obfuscating Stupidity

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