jesty
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛsti
Adjective[edit]
jesty (comparative more jesty, superlative most jesty)
- 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.