jestee

noun

jestee

noun

Etymology From jest + -ee.

1

The individual who is the subject of a joke.

  • 1759-67, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy The mortgager and mortgagee differ the one from the other, not more in length of purse, than the jester and jestee do in that of memory.

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