Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Jesting; joking; given to jesting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to jesting; full of jokes.
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- adjective Given to
jesting ; full ofjokes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But I also sensed in these long takes that writer/directorCorneliu Porumboiu was consciously going against-the-grain, staging mundanity in real-time with jestful purpose.
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The jestful emcee spent much of the day cooing and whistling at children as they came into the market, luring them up to the mike with the prospect of a book.
Kid comics at Silver Spring 'JokeFest' bask in limelight, if not laughter 2010
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I remember "Ay, how' she goin by?" was one of the most extreme examples; whenever it was used by my friends or family, it was almost always just a jestful reference to the colorful aspects of our Cape Breton Heritage.
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We were just trying to make a jestful, you know, gesture, about this whole thing.
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This is, though doubtless jestful, really a _point de repère_ for the manners of the later nineteenth century as concerns a busy man who likes society.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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"They were either written under the stress of day-to-day litigation by colleagues who occasionally used the forum as a shared means of blowing off steam or they were written in a jestful, teasing manner between friends," he said.
Thestar.com - Home Page Betsy Powell 2011
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"They were either written under the stress of day-to-day litigation by colleagues who occasionally used the forum as a shared means of blowing off steam or they were written in a jestful, teasing manner between friends," he said.
Thestar.com - Home Page Betsy Powell 2011
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He was as whimsical and jestful as ever, but he was not happy.
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He was as whimsical and jestful as ever, but he was not happy.
Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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Corneliu Porumboiu was consciously going against-the-grain, staging mundanity in real-time with jestful purpose.
/Film slashfilm.com 2010
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