jest : Idioms & Phrases
In jest
- for mere sport or diversion; not in truth and reality; not in earnest.
And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak.
Webster 1913
jest at
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verb subject to laughter or ridicule
laugh at; make fun; ridicule; blackguard; poke fun; roast; guy; rib.
- The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
- The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
- His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
WordNet
Jest book
- a book containing a collection of jests, jokes, and amusing anecdotes; a Joe Miller.
Webster 1913
To break a jest
- to utter a jest. "Patroclus . . . the livelong day break scurril jests." Shak.
