jokist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]jokist (plural jokists)
- (archaic) A joker; one who plays jokes.
- 1889, Judy's Annual, page 123:
- VESTRY, a bandit confederation of practical jokists addicted to laying funny mud traps in thoroughfares for simple pedestrians to walk into.
- 1894, Francis Cornwallis Maude, John Walter Sherer, Memories of the Mutiny, volume 2, page 471:
- Of course, by the time the dénouement was reached the chuckling jokists had quietly entered their own tents, with all the apparent innocence galliards of that description know well how to assume.