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jest

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"Playful joke"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /d͡ʒɛst/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ejstStarts with JEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (JEST).

Definitions

  1. act in a funny or teasing way

Word origin

From Middle English geste (“idle tale”), from Old French geste (“acts, exploits”), from Latin gesta (“acts, deeds”). Doublet of gest.

Used in a sentence

  • I made that comment in jest; it wasn't serious.
  • Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; […]
  • Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.

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