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31wit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Cleverness Nouns 1. wit, wittiness; Atticism; salt; sense of humor, funny bone, esprit, point, fancy, whim, humor, drollery, pleasantry; comedy; jocularity, jocosity, jocoseness; levity, facetiousness;… …
32jest — jest1 [dʒest] n formal [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: geste action , from Latin gesta (plural), from gerere to behave, perform ] something you say that is intended to be funny, not serious = ↑joke ▪ I wasn t sure whether to treat her… …
33jest — noun something said or done for amusement; a joke. verb speak or act in a joking manner. Derivatives jesting adjective &noun jestingly adverb Origin ME (orig. exploit, heroic deed , later a story of heroic deeds ): from earlier gest, from OFr.… …
34in jest — In joke, in sport, jestingly, sportively, not in earnest …
35in sport — In jest, not in earnest, sportively, jestingly …
36jest — 1 noun 1 in jest something you say in jest is intended to be funny, not serious 2 (C) old fashioned something that you say or do to amuse people; joke 2 verb (intransitive + about) old use to say things that you do not really mean in order to… …
37cheek — n 1. jowl, chop, gill. 2.Informal. audacity, impudence, insolence. See audacity (def.2). 3. cheeks Slang. buttocks, rump, Inf. rear end. See buttock . 4. tongue in cheek facetiously, jokingly, jestingly, in jest, in fun, as a joke; mockingly,… …
38tongue — n 1. organ of taste, lingua; Bot., Zool. ligula. 2. language, speech, dialect, parlance, idiolect; mother tongue, native tongue, native language, parent language; vernacular, common speech; verbal expression, use of words, voice, ability to… …
39jesting — /ˈdʒɛstɪŋ/ (say jesting) adjective 1. given to joking; playful. 2. fit for joking; unimportant; trivial: no jesting matter. –noun 3. pleasantry; triviality. –jestingly, adverb …
40sport — n. & v. n. 1 a a game or competitive activity, esp. an outdoor one involving physical exertion, e.g. cricket, football, racing, hunting. b such activities collectively (the world of sport). 2 (in pl.) Brit. a a meeting for competing in sports,… …
