Meanings
plural jokesters
- A person who tells jokes; a joker.
Our uncle is always being a jokester and cracking jokes about how much he eats and makes messes.
1 more example
Characters commenting on their own predicament as though they were the armchair jokesters of MST3K is almost never as smart as a film’s creative team thinks it is—something for which Urban Legend serves as Exhibit A.
2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018 - A person who plays practical jokes; a prankster.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
French blagueur, rigolo
- blagueurperson who tells jokes
- rigoloperson who tells jokes
- farceurperson who makes practical jokes
- bouffonjester
German Spaßmacher, Witzbold
- Spaßmacherperson who tells jokes
- Witzboldperson who tells jokes
- Witzeerzählerperson who tells jokes
Hungarian mókamester, udvaribolond
- mókamesterperson who makes practical jokes
- udvaribolondjester
Cite this entry
jokester. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jokester
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