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jestbook
[ jest-book ]
noun
- a book of jests or jokes.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of jestbook1
First recorded in 1740–50
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The best jestbook in the world is that which he dictated from memory, without referring to any book, on a day on which illness had rendered him incapable of serious study.
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"Allowing that it is ever so beautiful, and ever so beneficial, were we to ride on the rigging of it at all times, would we not be constantly making a farce of it: It would be like reading the Bible and the jestbook, verse about, and would render the life of man a medley of absurdity and confusion."
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