jesty

English

Etymology

jest +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsti

Adjective

jesty (comparative more jesty, superlative most jesty)

1. Inclined to jest; waggish; sportive.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 119, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean.