Jestest vs Jettest - What's the difference?
jestest | jettest |
(archaic) (jest)
(archaic) An act performed for amusement; a joke.
* Sheridan
(archaic) Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A deed; an action; a gest.
* Sir T. Elyot
(obsolete) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
* Kyd
To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
(jet)
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
(jet) Most jet-black in colour.
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As verbs the difference between jestest and jettest
is that jestest is archaic second-person singular of jest while jettest is archaic second-person singular of jet.As an adjective jettest is
superlative of jet Most jet-black in colour.jestest
English
Verb
(head)jest
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests , and to his imagination for his facts.
- Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.
- Then let me be your jest ; I deserve it.
- the jests or actions of princes
- (Nares)
- 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 alsoVerb
(en verb)- Surely you jest !
Synonyms
* (to joke) banter, kid, mock, teaseDerived terms
* (l) * (l)See also
* (wikipedia "jest")Anagrams
* ----jettest
English
Verb
(head)- Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!—that one strivest, this one jettest all in vain! In vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun