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English
Pronunciation
Noun
jesting (countable and uncountable, plural jestings)
- joking
1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. , 2nd edition, London: [Thomas Judson] for W Iaggard, and are to be sold by W Leake, , →OCLC:Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.
1834, L E L, chapter XVIII, in Francesca Carrara. , volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 151:What an extraordinary mental delusion jesting is; that sort of laboured vivacity which fancies it is pointed when it is only personal; and more extraordinary still, it is always the resource of stupid people.
- bantering; ridicule
- mocking
Adjective
jesting (comparative more jesting, superlative most jesting)
- facetious
- humorous
- playful; mocking
- jeering
Verb
jesting
- present participle and gerund of jest