1598 J. Marston iii. x. sig. H5 Tuscus, that iest-mounging youth, Who nere did ope his Apish gerning mouth But to retaile and broke anothers wit.
1681 W. Robertson (1693) 754 A witless jestmonger.
a1851 J. Baillie De Monfort i. ii, in (1853) 81 Some witlings and jest-mongers still remain For fools to laugh at.