jestee
jestee · jestees
The individual who is the subject of a jokeThe individual who is the subject of a joke.
Meaning
1 sensesThe individual who is the subject of a joke.
1759-67, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy The mortgager and mortgagee differ the one from the other, not more in length of purse, than the jester and jestee do in that of memory.
Origin
From jest + -ee.From jest + -ee.
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