noun. A playful or frivolous mood or manner.

noun. A playful remark; a witticism or joke.

noun. A playful or amusing act; a prank.

noun. An object of ridicule; a laughingstock.

intransitive verb. To make witty or amusing remarks.

intransitive verb. To act in a playful or facetious manner.

noun. An act; deed; achievement; exploit; gest. See gest, n.

noun. A tale of achievement or adventure; a story; romance. See gest, n., 2.

noun. A mask; masquerade; pageant.

noun. A spoken pleasantry; a laughable or intentionally ludicrous saying; a witticism; a joke; a sally.

noun. An acted pleasantry; a, jocular or playful action; something done to make sport or cause laughter.

noun. The object of laughter, sport, or mockery; a laughing-stock.

noun. Synonyms Jest, Joke; quip, quirk, witticism, sally. A joke is often rougher or less delicate than a jest, as a practical joke, but jest often suggests more of lightness or scoffing than joke, as to turn everything into jest. Joke is the word to be used where action is implied; jest is generally applied to something said.

A common dialectal form of just.

To tell stories or romances. See gest, verb

I can not geste, rum, raf, ruf, by letter

To trifle (with); amuse or entertain by words or actions; treat as trifling.

To say or do something intended to amuse or cause laughter.

To take part in a mask or sport; engage in mock combat; just.

To utter in jest or sport.

To apply a jest to; joke with; banter; rally.

intransitive verb. To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.

intransitive verb. To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.

noun. A deed; an action; a gest.

noun. A mask; a pageant; an interlude.

noun. Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.

noun. The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.

noun. for mere sport or diversion; not in truth and reality; not in earnest.

noun. a book containing a collection of jests, jokes, and amusing anecdotes; a Joe Miller.

noun. An act performed for amusement; a joke.

noun. Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.

verb. To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.

noun. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

verb. act in a funny or teasing way

verb. tell a joke; speak humorously

noun. activity characterized by good humor

"Reverting to Baby-Talk nicknames, even in jest, is just another nail in the coffin of this blogs masculinity."

in jest  jeer  to break a jest  

Best  Blessed  Brest  Celeste  Este  

allusion  amusement  banter  chuckle  compliment  

Parthian shot  a continental  a curse  a damn  a darn  

jested  jesting  jests