Original: εὐτραπελία

Transliteration: eutrapelía

Phonetic: yoo-trap-el-ee'-ah

Short Definition: Jesting

- Original: εὐτραπελία

- Transliteration: Eutrapelia

- Phonetic: yoo-trap-el-ee'-ah

- Definition:

1. pleasantry, humour, facetiousness

2. in a bad sense

a. scurrility, ribaldry, low jesting

- Origin: from a compound of G2095 and a derivative of the base of G5157 (meaning well-turned, i.e. ready at repartee, jocose)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: From a compound of G2095 and a derivative of the base of G5157 (meaning well turned that is ready at repartee jocose); witticism that is (in a vulgar sense) ribaldry: - jesting.