jokist

plural jokists

1. archaicA joker; one who plays jokes.

   VESTRY, a bandit confederation of practical jokists addicted to laying funny mud traps in thoroughfares for simple pedestrians to walk into.

   1889, Judy's Annual, page 123

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   Of course, by the time the dénouement was reached the chuckling jokists had quietly entered their own tents, with all the apparent innocence galliards of that description know well how to assume.

   1894, Francis Cornwallis Maude, John Walter Sherer, Memories of the Mutiny, volume 2, page 471