单词 | jesting-stock |
释义 | † ˈjesting-stock Obs. [f. jesting vbl. n. + stock n.: cf. gazing-stock, laughing-stock.] An object of jest or ridicule; a laughing-stock.
1535Coverdale Job xvii. 6, I am his gestinge stocke. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 214 Wee are to all the heathen a iesting stocke to laugh at. 1632Massinger City Madam iv. iv, He's your ‘kind brother’ now; but yesterday, Your slave and jesting-stock. |

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