喜樂美語
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    A jester was a man a ruler paid, long ago, to make people laugh. He told jokes and stories, and in pictures he often wears bright clothes and a hat with bells. In some courts he was even allowed to tease the king a little, because that was his job. The word belongs to history and to plays; a funny person today is a comedian, not a jester. Though actually, jesters were not only silly. Some were sharp, and a joke could hide a true warning. The word is almost always about that old court job, not about any person who happens to be .

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組成From Middle English gestour; the same as jest (a joke said for fun) + -er (a person who does that).

同家族的字

  • jesta joke said to amuse; a jester is someone whose work is jests
  • jestingmaking jokes; the activity behind the old job
  • jestinglyin a joking way, from the same jest family

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Jestername

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    A surname.

jesternoun/ˈd͡ʒɛs.tə/

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    One who jests, jokes or teases.

    • As resident jester at the maverick journalism outlet The Free Press, Nellie Bowles scours the news for the absurd and hypocritical, and then skewers the best of the worst in her column, TGIF.
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    A person in colourful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.

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    Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Southeast Asian genus Symbrenthia.

jesterverb/ˈd͡ʒɛs.tə/

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    To act in a foolish or clownish way for the purpose of entertainment or attracting attention.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。