jesting
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ/
Noun
jesting (countable and uncountable, plural jestings)
- joking
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Passionate Pilgrim
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 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
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- He will find that these are no jesting matters.
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- playful; mocking
- jeering
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