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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
jesting en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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facetious
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humorous
He will find that these are no jesting matters.
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, 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:
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playful; mocking
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jeering
Forms
Deriveds
jestingly · unjesting
jesting en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) joking
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.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 151:Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.
1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. […], 2nd edition, London: […] [Thomas Judson] for W[illiam] Iaggard, and are to be sold by W[illiam] Leake, […], →OCLC:
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(countable, uncountable) bantering; ridicule
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(countable, uncountable) mocking
Forms
jesting en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of jest
Relateds
jesting-stock