jest
noun
a joke or witty remark; witticism.
will jest
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future tenseof jest.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Well anyhow, folks who think God’s will jest has to do with sufferin’ and dyin’, they done missed the whole point.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Indeed, he will jest you out of anything.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
“If you break your neck your uncle will jest natcherly run me off’n this range!”
From Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys by Alice B. Emerson
It is a brave heart that will jest in such a case as yours, for you are ice from head to foot.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Because that I familiarly sometimes Do use you for my fool, and chat with you, Your sauciness will jest upon my love, And make a common of my serious hours.
From The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
