joust
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- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
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Definition of joust
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
“medieval joust”
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noun
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A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
“medieval joust”
verb
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To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
“The knights prepared to joust in the tournament.”
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To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally)
“verbally joust”
“Politicians often joust with words during debates.”
- (slang)To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French jouster (modern French jouter), from Vulgar Latin *juxtō, *iuxtō, *iuxtāre, from Latin iūxta (“close to”). English since the early 14th century.
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