View source for jesting

==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ/}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛstɪŋ|s=2}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|~}}

# [[joking]]
#* {{RQ:Passionate Pilgrime|passage=Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were '''jestings'''.}}
#* {{RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara|page=151|volume=III|text=What an extraordinary mental delusion '''jesting''' is; that sort of laboured vivacity which fancies it is pointed when it is only personal; and more extraordinary still, it is always the resource of stupid people.}}
# [[bantering]]; [[ridicule]]
# [[mocking]]

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# [[facetious]]
# [[humorous]]
#* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|chapter=15|passage=He will find that these are no '''jesting''' matters.}}
# [[playful]]; [[mocking]]
# [[jeering]]

===Verb===
{{head|en|verb form}}

# {{infl of|en|jest||ing-form}}

===Related terms===
* [[jesting-stock]]