jesty
adj/ˈd͡ʒɛstiː/ · [ˈd͡ʒɛstɪi̯]
Etymology From jest + -y.
1
Inclined to jest; waggish; sportive.
- Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean.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: