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mock implausible word origins such as those proposed by Priscian. It is a jesting suggestion that since the word lucus (dark grove) has a similar appearance...

for favorable effect. The second is jesting, which is closer to joking in that it is less sustained. While jesting can be useful in some instances, it...

communication. Both the performer and audience understand it to be set apart from the "real" world. "An elephant walks into a bar…"; a person sufficiently...

best buddy and wild man Charlie shows up unexpectedly. In his raucous jesting, unaware that Ginger is listening from upstairs, Charlie frames Joe as...

award, stating: "What McGowan failed to take into consideration was the jesting manner in which Jenner spoke." Tam said: [Jenner] also immediately followed...

Crimea, Vol. 6 Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson Bible: Romans 9:13 Jesting Pilate Aldous Huxley Francis Bacon, Of Truth The Kingdom of God Is Within...

their praise with genuine reservations about the "irreverence and profane jesting", as the New Haven Daily Palladium for November 17 phrased it. Many reviewers...

Tartaglione, Nancy (24 August 2017). "Comedy Central's Kent Alterman On Jesting In The Age Of Trump – Edinburgh". Deadline. Retrieved 29 February 2024...

of one who meets a person with sumpong is to go away or to refrain from jesting with the person. One way of dealing with a person with sumpong is to respond...

both business and personal reasons, which is expressed in the form of jesting and sometimes-hurtful bickering. Mal constantly insults her career, but...

often to say at this time, when such things were happening, as though jesting amid the ills of mankind. For when he was told of the revolt of Egypt,...

of "hippopotamus". Troubetzkoy envisioned the statue as a caricature, jesting that he wished "to portray an animal atop another animal", and it was quite...

and he tells Candide, who initially doubts his credentials: I am not jesting, my name is Achmet III. For several years I was Sultan; I dethroned my...

He performed with Quintana, Holiday (introduced by Letterman as "Justin Jesting"), and bassist Tony Marsico. Performing three songs with his band of post-punk...

'truth': Kasena Women's (de)construction of Gender Through Proverbial Jesting. Doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California. p. 83, 84, Dalfovo...

better prepared to stay at home and raise Calvin. Whether or not he was jesting is debatable. On the rare occasions when she is not reacting to Calvin's...

song as "both blissfully simple and full of the free-spirited musical jesting with which The Beatles amazed classical critics". In his song review for...

of Argentocoxus, a Caledonian, to Julia Augusta. When the empress was jesting with her, after the treaty, about the free intercourse of her sex with...

King of Denmark; with them travelled William Kempe, "the Lord Leicester's jesting player". Leicester possessed one of the largest collections of paintings...

disparage women and refer to the rape of a young virgin in a derogatory and jesting manner. In referring to various types of women and their availability,...