jesting

Speech parts

1. jesting - Noun

2. jesting - Adjective

3. jesting - Verb

5. jesting - Adjective Satellite

of Jest

Sportive; not serious; fit for jests.

The act or practice of making jests; joking; pleasantry.

Source: Webster's dictionary

joking jocular jocose jinks repartee sport comedy fun humor humorous joke funny ridicule playful mocking

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set determined fixed serious severe committed

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Francis Bacon

Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest. George Herbert

The eye and Religion can beare no jesting. George Herbert

It's ill jesting with edged tools. Dutch Proverb

It is ill jesting with sharp tools. English Proverb

No jesting with edged tools. French Proverb