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jesting

noun
/ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. joking

    • Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.
    • 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.

  2. bantering

    bantering; ridicule

  3. mocking

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. facetious

    2. humorous

      • He will find that these are no jesting matters.

    3. playful

      playful; mocking

    4. jeering

    5. present participle and gerund of jest

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA