Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One given to jesting.
  • noun A fool or buffoon at medieval courts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A story-teller; a reciter of tales, adventures, and romances.
  • noun One who is addicted to jesting; one who is given to witticisms, jokes, and pranks.
  • noun A court-fool or professed sayer of witty things and maker of amusement, maintained by a prince or noble in the middle ages and later.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
  • noun A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun one who jests, jokes or mocks
  • noun a person in bright garb and fool’s cap who amused a mediaeval royal court.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages

Etymologies

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jest +‎ -er

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