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n. (private joke English)
Usage examples of "private jokes".
Enjoying bacon and eggs that seemed tastier than he had ever eaten before, exchanging pointless and very private jokes with Stella, George Dorn was at peace.
They were discreet in public, but you only had to see the way he carried her cases for her and she turned to him for advice, and how they drifted together and always seemed to be echoing each others thoughts and laughing at private jokes.
In the evening, I would sit by the fire and watch as a wife who had deceived me and a son who was not my son played games or read together, laughed at private jokes, and discussed subjects in which I had no interest and from whose content and significance I felt purposely excluded.
They had their private jokes, and their cool-eyed apartness from the rest of the party.
Who turned their backs and sniggered at private jokes while The Colours were being marched past?
So for all of one day he wandered alone and sightless through the streets of his district, remembering Mariko, turning images of her over with the fingers of his mind, recalling the delight and fear and shame of their sexual unions, smiling to himself over private jokes and nonsense.
She was making one of her wry private jokes but she meant it, all the same.
The Japanese seem to enjoy many private jokes at the expense of the gaijin.
Couples clutched at each other and giggled as they shared private jokes that needed this particular moment to be funny.
Shasa spoke their language perfectly, understood the most heavily veiled references and laughed at their private jokes, but he was not one of them.
She and Robin sat a little way apart from us, sharing food and laughing at private jokes.
Erno liked women as individuals, but in a group, their intimate laughter, gossip, and private jokes—.
It was a custom, and the close little society on the north side of the river seemed to feel the need of customs, of private jokes, of building up social characteristics to distinguish themselves - in their own eyes - from the rest of society.
The two little kitchen-maids bustled around, eager to help, hot and panting, with cotton sleeves well tucked up above the dimpled elbows, and giggling over some private jokes of their own, whenever Miss Sally’.