0 something that is said or done in order to be funny:
His proposal was no jest - he was completely sincere.
1 to say something intended to be funny:
Would I jest about something so important?
2 a joke:
Each of the fool's jests is preceded by a poem that describes the fool in detail with particular emphasis on his physical appearance and the nature of his mental shortcomings.
The verb est' "eat" takes a different prefix to signal telicity: s-jest'.
There must always be a hidden profundity within the humorist's jest.
Later he was to comment, only partly in jest, that television lectures were an easy way to write books.
More specifically, it is important to ask what exactly is the nature of the humorous jest.
Now supposing the revocation of the whole text at the end is itself a kind of jest ?
In these cases verse takes on another dimension of seriousness by its juxtaposition with the prose of jest and the evasion of responsibilities.
In fact, the jest reveals a level of mental compulsion that verges on psychosis.
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