jest

[US]/dʒest/
[UK]/dʒest/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a playful or humorous act; a joke or witty remark
vi. to make jokes or witty remarks; to mock or ridicule
vt. to mock or ridicule

Phrases & Collocations

a playful jest

jesting around

jest with friends

in jest

jest with

Example Sentences

This is no jesting matter.

there are jests about administrative gaffes.

lowly virtue is the jest of fools.

speak half in jest, half in earnest

They made a jest of his ignorance.

Please don't jest with me.

a court jester; court records.

Don’t jest with me, young man.

Do not mind, he is jesting.

Jester: Zowie, that was close!

The jester brandished his bauble.

I said you look terrible in jest, actually, you look very pretty.

"and the name of the jesting valet, Zanni(or zany ), is used to describe any comic "cutup", on the stage or off. "

Direction: Jest daub the floor with upper wax by a wax swob.

Jester: You want to know why the speel didn't break, hmm, Vergil?

All jests aside, we're in big trouble. Awitticism is a witty, usually cleverly phrased remark:

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