jokist

English

Etymology

joke +‎ -ist

Noun

jokist (plural jokists)

1. (archaic) A joker; one who plays jokes.
   • 1889, Judy's Annual, page 123:

     VESTRY, a bandit confederation of practical jokists addicted to laying funny mud traps in thoroughfares for simple pedestrians to walk into.

   • 1894, Francis Cornwallis Maude, John Walter Sherer, Memories of the Mutiny, volume 2, page 471:

     Of course, by the time the dénouement was reached the chuckling jokists had quietly entered their own tents, with all the apparent innocence galliards of that description know well how to assume.