| 单词 | jokester |
| 释义 | jokester (once / 101891 pages) n A jokester is someone who loves telling jokes, joking around, or playing practical jokes on people. You might tire of your jokester uncle pretending to "get your nose" every time you see him. The teacher who's fond of knock-knock jokes is a jokester, and the student who puts a whoopie cushion on that teacher's chair is also a jokester. A career as a stand-up comedian might be in one of these jokesters' future. Jokester dates from about 1819, combining joke, from its Latin root iocus, "joke, sport, or pastime," and the suffix -ster, used to mean "a person who..." WORD FAMILYjokester: jokesters+/joke: joked, joker, jokes, jokester, joking/joker: jokers/joking: jokingly USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s a way to be a jokester,” said Mr. Rapaport. Wall Street Journal(Dec 21, 2016) There’s a bit of a jokester in her, and she can be a bit bossy. Seattle Times(Nov 30, 2016) But it fostered a whole industry of mirth populated with cultural figures from hack jokesters to respectable writers slumming it as humorists. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) n a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes Syn|Hyper joker comedian, comic a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts |
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