nonjoke

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ joke.

Noun

nonjoke (plural nonjokes)

1. A story, utterance, etc. that is not a joke.
   • 1982, Wallace I. Matson, Sentience:

     And if the computer did produce a joke, it could not separate it from the nonjokes.

   • 2008, Kendall L. Walton, Marvelous images: on values and the arts:

     Whether either the dumb joke or the nonjoke is funny is hardly a question that arouses the passions or that we much care about […]