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jestee

noun

Etymology

From jest + -ee.

  1. derived from gesta
  2. derived from geste
  3. inherited from geste
  4. suffixed as jestee — “jest + ee”

Definitions

  1. The individual who is the subject of a joke.

    • 1759-67, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy The mortgager and mortgagee differ the one from the other, not more in length of purse, than the jester and jestee do in that of memory.

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