[f. JEST v. + -ING2.] That jests; jocose; trifling; † scoffing, jeering.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia, I. (1895), 73. A certein iesting parasite, or scoffer.
1625. Bacon, Ess., Truth (Arb.), 499. What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; And would not stay for an Answer.
1700. Dryden, Pal. & Arc., I. 284. Speakst thou in earnest, or in jesting vein?
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. viii. 287. In revenge for a jesting and not very intelligible ballad sung against him.
