Jestee
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From jest + -ee.
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