different between jestingly vs jest

English

Etymology

jesting +? -ly

Adverb

jestingly (comparative more jestingly, superlative most jestingly)

1. In jest, jokingly.
   • 1693, Jean Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel [1546], translated by Thomas Urquhart and Pierre Antoine Motteux, Book III, Chapter 14,^[1]

     […] she flattered me, tickled me, stroaked me, groped me, frizled me, curled me, kissed me, embraced me, laid her Hands about my Neck, and now and then made jestingly, pretty little Horns above my Forehead: […]

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume II, Chapter 10,^[2]

     This was spoken jestingly, but it appeared to her so just a picture of Mr. Darcy, that she would not trust herself with an answer; and, therefore, abruptly changing the conversation, talked on indifferent matters till they reached the parsonage.

   • 1827, Charles Lamb, The Wife’s Trial; Or, The Intruding Widow, in The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb, London: Edward Moxon, 3rd edition, 1838, p. 264,^[3]

     Were you free to chuse,

     As jestingly I’ll put the supposition,

     Without a thought reflecting on your Katherine,

     What sort of woman would you make your choice?

   • 1918, E. Craigie Melville, “In Camp” in Poems from the Trenches, Somerville, Mass.: The Thistle Press, p. 18,^[4]

     Still I shall hate to leave you for the sake of those splendid nights

     When the long, hard day is over and Sergeant has douzed the lights,

     And we lie on those beds of straw that unfortunate Tommies get,

     And jestingly jolly each other as we smoke a last cig’rette;

   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 6,

     They heard her talking normally, even jestingly, with one of the aunts, and they admired her for her courage.

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?st, IPA^(key): /d??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

jest (plural jests)

1. (archaic) An act performed for amusement; a joke.

2. (archaic) Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.

   Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.
3. (obsolete) A deed; an action; a gest.
   • 1540, Thomas Elyot, Image of Governance

     the jests or actions of princes

4. (obsolete) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)

   • 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy

     He promised us, in honour of our guest, / To grace our banquet with some pompous jest.

Synonyms

• (joke): prank, gag, laughingstock, banter, crack, wisecrack, witticism
• See also Thesaurus:joke

Translations

Verb

jest (third-person singular simple present jests, present participle jesting, simple past and past participle jested)

1. To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.

   Surely you jest!

Synonyms

• (to joke): banter, kid, mock, tease

Derived terms

• jester
• jestingly

Translations

See also

• jest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Pronunciation spelling of just..

Adverb

jest (not comparable)

1. (African-American Vernacular, Southern US) Alternative spelling of just

Anagrams

• ESTJ, Jets, jets

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jest/
• Homophone: gjest

Alternative forms

• jester

Etymology

From Old Norse j?str, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz, whence English yeast.

Noun

jest m (definite singular jesten, indefinite plural jester, definite plural jestene)

1. yeast

   Synonym: gjær

Related terms

• ese

References

• “jest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “jest” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• jester
• gjester (non-standard since 1938)

Etymology

From Old Norse j?str, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz, whence also English yeast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?st/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: gjest

Noun

jest m (definite singular jesten, indefinite plural jestar, definite plural jestane)

1. yeast

   Synonym: gjær

Related terms

• asa, ase
• esa, ese

References

• “jest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?st/

Verb

jest

1. third-person singular present indicative of by?; is

2. (mathematics) is, equals (see also wynosi)

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

jest (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person singular present of b?ti