The corpus record

σκῶμμα

skomma · τό

jest, gibe

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Where it lives

Euthyphro 2 · 3.87/10k
Against Conon 1 · 3.15/10k
Third Philippic 1 · 2.35/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
Theaetetus 2 · 0.89/10k
On the Crown 1 · 0.51/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4 · 0.37/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

σκῶμμα · skōmma — LSJ

jest, gibe, joke, pun

jest, gibe, Eup. 159.15, 244, Ar. Nu. 542, Pax 750, Pl. 316, Pl. R. 452b, etc.; ἐν σκώμματος μέρει by way of a joke, Aeschin. 1.126; εἰς γέλωτα καὶ σκώμματʼ ἐμβαλεῖν D. 54.13; εἰς σ. καταστῆναι Lys. Fr. 75; σ. παρὰ γράμμα a pun, Arist. Rh. 1412a29; it generally implies scurrility, but not necessarily, v. EN 1128a30, cf. Thphr. ap. Plu. QConv. 2.631e.

In the wild

σκώμματα · skōmmata Aristophanes, Clouds 540 (DIORISIS sentence 426)
σκώμμασιν · skōmmasin Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 538)
σκωμμάτων · skōmmatōn Aristophanes, Plutus 2b (DIORISIS sentence 245)
σκῶμμα · skōmma Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3
σκῶμμα · skōmma Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1128a (DIORISIS sentence 1490)
σκώμματα · skōmmata Aristotle, Rhetoric 3

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Where it came from

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