Jest vs Gibe - What's the difference?

jest | gibe |

As a noun jest

is (archaic) an act performed for amusement; a joke.

As a verb jest

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

As a proper noun gibe is

jest

English

Noun

(en noun)

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

* Sheridan

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests , and to his imagination for his facts.

(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.

* Shakespeare

Then let me be your jest ; I deserve it.

(obsolete) A deed; an action; a gest.

* Sir T. Elyot

the jests or actions of princes

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

(Nares)

* Kyd

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

Verb

(en verb)

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

* (l) * (l)

Anagrams

* ----

gibe

English

Alternative forms

* gybe * jibe

Noun

(en noun)

A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.

* 1603 , , Hamlet , act 5, scene 1:

Hamlet : Alas, poor Yorick! . . . Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?

Verb

(en-verb)

To perform a jibe (2, 3).

To agree.

That explanation doesn't gibe with the facts.

To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).

(ambitransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.

* Jonathan Swift

Draw the beasts as I describe them, / From their features, while I gibe them.

* Jonathan Swift

Fleer and gibe , and laugh and flout.