| 释义 |
jest-book|ˈdʒɛstbʊk|
[f. jest n. + book n.]
A book of jests or amusing stories.
1750H. Walpole Lett. (1845) II. 367 You will think my letters are absolute jest-and-story books. 1781Cowper Truth 307 The Scripture was his jest-book, whence he drew Bons-mots to gall the Christian and the Jew. 1876N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 58 Various collections of jestbooks, as those containing the jokes of Bertaldo and Gonnella. |