jestとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: jĕst, IPA: /d͡ʒɛst/
  • 韻: -ɛst
• (dialectal, obsolete) enPR: jēst, IPA: /d͡ʒiːst/
• (Early Modern) IPA: /d͡ʒɛst/, /d͡ʒɛːst/

名詞

jest (plural jests)

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

   I made that comment in jest; it wasn't serious.

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:

     Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; […]

2. (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.

   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 58, column 2:

     Why then make ſport at me, then let me be your ieſt, / I deſerue it […]

3. (obsolete) A deed; an action; a gest.
   • 1540, Thomas Elyot, Image of Governance:

     the jests or actions of princes

4. (obsolete) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
   • c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     He promised us, in honour of our guest, / To grace our banquet with some pompous jest.

同意語

• (joke): prank, gag, laughingstock, banter, crack, wisecrack, witticism
• See also Thesaurus:joke

派生語

動詞

jest (third-person singular simple present jests, present participle jesting, simple past and past participle jested)

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

   Surely you jest!

同意語

• (to joke): banter, kid, mock, tease

派生語

参考

• jest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

語源 2

副詞

jest (not comparable)

1. (African-American Vernacular, Southern US, Shropshire) Pronunciation spelling of just.
   • 1890, Emma E. Hornibrook, Queen of the ranche; or, Life in the Far west, page 150:

     So I jest called out to know what was up, and found it was Miss Vanholte's cowboys, who had been forced into the store by them rascally ruffins.

   • 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:

     "Jest like the Injian puzzle-boxes, ain't they?" said Dan, as the one boat dropped into the other.

アナグラム

• ESTJ, Jets, jets