Reverse Dictionary: JEST

ADJECTIVES
► BADEEN jesting, frivolous → 1685 obs.
► BOURDFUL full of jesting or sport; jocular, jocose, sportive → 1388 obs.
► FRUMPISH disposed to mock or flout; jesting, sneering; also, cross, ill-tempered → 1647
► GAMEFUL jesting, joyful, playful, sportive → c1205 obs.
► JAPISH inclined to jest → 1880s
► JOCATORY jesting, jocular, merry; characterized by joking → 1576 obs.
► JOCULATORY having the character of a jester; uttered in jest; jocular, droll, humorous, sportive, merry, jesting → 1623 obs.
► LEPID jesting, humorous, amusing, jocose, facetious → 1619
► LUDIBRIOUS apt to be a subject of jest or mockery; ridiculous, laughable → 1563 obs.
► LUDICROUS intended in jest, jocular, derisive → 1619 obs.
► SCOPTIC jesting, mocking, scoffing, satirical → 1670 obs.
► WANTON given to broad jesting, jovial, waggish → c1386 obs.

ADVERBS
► A-GAME in jest, in play → c1300 obs.
► GAMEFULLY jestingly, playfully → 1387 obs.
► LEPIDLY in a jesting manner → 1650
► LUDICROUSLY jestingly, sportively, humorously → a1678 obs.

NOUNS
► BANTER a matter of jest or ridicule → 1719 obs.
► BOURD a jest, a joke → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BULLY a ludicrous jest → 1766 US
► CHAFF-CUTTING jesting, joking, playing on words → 1890 sl. (Bk.)
► GABBERIES jests, mockeries, gibes, wily deceits → 1627 obs.
► GAG a jest, a joke → 1863
► GAME jest, as opposed to ‘earnest’; a jest or a joke → c1250 obs.
► GAMMOCK a jest, game, piece of fun → 1819 Eng. dial.
► GAUD ► GAWD a jest, a scoff; also, an object of mockery → c1440 obs.
► GAUDING jesting, a making merry; scoffing → a1553 obs.
► GUY a jest, a joke, a prank; a trick or hoax → 1854 Amer. sl.
► HARLOTRY jesting, buffoonery; ribaldry, scurrility, scurrilous talk → c1325 obs.
► JAPE a jest, a joke, a gibe; a device to amuse; a merry or idle tale → c1340 obs.
► JAPERY jesting speech; ribaldry; a jest → c1340 obs.
► JERK a jest; a retort; a quirk → 1653 sl.
► JOE MILLER a jest or joke, esp. a stale joke → 1829 
► JOSH a jest, a piece of badinage → 1878 Amer. now colloq.
► LARRIE jesting, joking, a practical joke, a hoax → 1880 Sc.
► LEPIDITY a jest, a joke, wit, facetiousness → 1647 obs.
► NAP a jest, a joke; fun → 1885 Sc.
► NIFLE a jest, a trifling or fictitious tale, a jest → c1395 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► OFF-TAKE a jesting or jeering remark → 1900 Sc.
► POKING BORAK a jest → 1898 Aust.
► RAGE jest, jesting talk; sport, game; extravagant, riotous, or wanton behaviour → c1320 obs.
► RAISE a jest; a practical joke; a piece of fun and horseplay at another’s expense → 1866 Sc.
► RALLERY a jesting or playful action; a joke → 1653 obs.
► RIDICULOSITY a jest or joke; a ridiculous matter; anything that arouses laughter → 1725 arch.
► SCORN jest, ridicule; banter; satire → 1790 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► SKAUNCE a jest → c1440 obs.
► WAGGERY a piece of mischievous jesting; a practical joke → 1604

NOUNS – PERSON
► FRUMPER a person who mocks, flouts, or jests → 1589 obs.
► JESTING-STOCK an object of jest or ridicule; a laughingstock → 1535 obs.
► MAD GRIG an extravagantly lively person, one who is full of frolic and jest → 1638 obs.
► MERRY GRIG an extravagantly lively person, one who is full of frolic and jest → 1566
► SMOKER a person who jests at or ridicules others → 1812
► WAG-WIT ► WAG-WITS a witty jesting fellow → 1786 Sc.

VERBS
► BADINER to talk jestingly and frivolously; to banter → 1697 obs.
► BANTER to make a jest of a thing; to ridicule → 1704 obs.
► BOURD to jest → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CRACK to speak in a jesting or sarcastic manner → 1811 Amer. sl.
► DAFF to jest, to play, to sport, to frolic, esp. between the sexes → 1535 chiefly Sc.
► GAFF to jest, to banter; to jeer, to scoff at → 1876 Eng. dial.
► GAG to jest, to joke → 1942
► GAME to jest, to play, to sport; to amuse oneself; also, to indulge in amorous play → c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GAUD ► GAWD to jest, to sport, to make merry → 1532 obs.
► GRIND to satirize severely; to make a jest of → 1887 US students’ sl.
► JAPE to jest, to joke, to jeer; to say or do something in jest or mockery; to make fun, to sport → c1374
► JARL to jest, to jeer; to snarl, to quarrel, to dispute → 1580 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► JUGGLE to amuse or entertain people with jesting, buffoonery, tricks, etc. → 1377 obs.
► LASCIVIATE to indulge in unseemly jesting; to sport wantonly; to give oneself to lasciviousness → 1627-77 obs.
► RAIL to jest, to rally → 1508 obs.
► RAILLY to jest, to rally, to banter → 1635 obs.
► SMOKE to jest at, to make fun of; to ridicule, to banter → 1699 arch.