jesting

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)joking

   “Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.”

   “What an extraordinary mental delusion jesting is; that sort of laboured vivacity which fancies it is pointed when it is only personal; and more extraordinary still, it is always the resource of stupid people.”

2. (countable, uncountable)bantering; ridicule
3. (countable, uncountable)mocking

adj

1. facetious
2. humorous

   “He will find that these are no jesting matters.”

3. playful; mocking
4. jeering

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of jest