Illustration: Four friends sit around a low table after dinner in a Japanese apartment. One has just delivered a joke, leaning back with a small, excessively satisfied smile and one palm raised as if presenting a brilliant observation.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

しゃれ

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joke, pun

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしたちはその教授きょうじゅが昔むかしから言いっているしゃれにうんざりしている。

    We are tired of the professor’s old joke.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 非常ひじょうにうまい洒落しゃれだったので、満場爆笑まんじょうばくしょうした。

    It was such a nice joke that everybody burst out laughing.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 洒落しゃれを好このみ温厚おんこうであったが、新聞事業しんぶんじぎょうから身みを引ひいてのちの晩年ばんねんは不遇ふぐうであった。

    He liked witticism and was good-natured, but was misfortunate in his later years after retiring from the newspaper business.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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