jokebook

[ johk-book ]

noun

1. a book of jokes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jokebook¹

First recorded in 1950–55; joke + book

Example Sentences

He stood atop my desk in what are now his product-launch trademark OshKosh B’gosh overalls and red Keds, using a yardstick and the blackboard to outline his start-up’s key features, such as hamster-health wearable monitoring, frictionless nap-rug-sharing and a user-modifiable cloud-based dinosaur jokebook.

From New York Times

The few successful female stand-up comics at the time were people like Phyllis Diller, who did jokebook gags poking fun at her fright-haired looks and ineptness as a housewife.

From Time

But Archie Bunker's righteous outrage has been replaced by Gary Coleman's jokebook, and the conflicts are resolved with a pat 1950s-style sentimentality that seems phonier than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bernstein was quoted as saying that the script read like a Henny Youngman jokebook.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is little of the dentist-office jokebook about the new Life.

From Time Magazine Archive