jestee

English

Etymology

jest +‎ -ee

Noun

jestee (plural jestees)

  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.
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