† jesting-stockn.
Obsolete.
An object of jest or ridicule; a laughing-stock.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule
hethinga1340
japing-stickc1380
laughing stock?1518
mocking-stock1526
laughing game1530
jesting-stock1535
mockage1535
derision1539
sporting stocka1556
game1562
May game1569
scoffing-stock1571
playing stock1579
make-play1592
flouting-stock1593
sport1598
bauchle1600
jest1606
butt1607
make-sport1611
mocking1611
mirtha1616
laughing stakea1630
scoff1640
gaud1650
blota1657
make-mirth1656
ridicule1678
flout1708
sturgeon1708
laugh1710
ludibry1722
jestee1760
make-game1762
joke1791
laughee1808
laughing post1810
target1842
jest-word1843
Aunt Sally1859
monument1866
punchline1978
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xvii. 6 I am his gestinge stocke.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. ix. sig. O.iijv/2 Wee are to all the heathen a iesting stocke to laugh at.
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iv. iv. 23 Hee's your kind brother now. But yesterday Your slave and jesting-stock.
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