jesteen.
rare.
One who is the object of a jest; a butt.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule
hethinga1340
japing-stickc1380
laughing stock?1518
mocking-stock1526
laughing game1530
jesting-stock1535
mockage1535
derision1539
sporting stocka1556
game1562
May game1569
scoffing-stock1571
playing stock1579
make-play1592
flouting-stock1593
sport1598
bauchle1600
jest1606
butt1607
make-sport1611
mocking1611
mirtha1616
laughing stakea1630
scoff1640
gaud1650
blota1657
make-mirth1656
ridicule1678
flout1708
sturgeon1708
laugh1710
ludibry1722
jestee1760
make-game1762
joke1791
laughee1808
laughing post1810
target1842
jest-word1843
Aunt Sally1859
monument1866
punchline1978
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xii. 60 The Mortgager and Mortgageé differ..not more in length of purse, than the Jester and Jesteé do, in that of memory.
1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 180 ‘Immense arrogance’, shout the eclipsed; ‘unprofitable jests’, grunt the jestees.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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