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jokester

jokester

7 4.4
A person who often makes other people laugh
  • noun
  • /ˈjoʊkstər/
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  • My uncle is a jokester who always makes everyone laugh at family gatherings.
  • a practical jokester
  • a jokester who poked fun
  • a bit of a jokester

These guys, they're jokesters and they're friends and they have a cruise.

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Examples

  • My brother, he's a real jokester.

  • These guys, they're jokesters and they're friends and they have a cruise.

  • You're a real jokester, man.

  • I found one community full of jokesters and loved everything about it.

    Blog text (7)
  • Oh, yeah, you guys are a couple of jokesters.

  • She was a little bit of a jokester.

  • Both he and my son are jokesters, and as annoying as it can be, I love it.

  • Erica: "Jake the Jokester" strikes again.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Well, you know Mom is a jokester, and I love her to death, but…

  • From the moment he steps on stage, Sam'l is a fast-talking jokester, quick of tongue and full of witty retorts:

    Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

clown
vsjokester
372 1.0

A performer who wears bright clothes and makes people laugh

enjoys informal joking or playful acts rather than staged performance roles
card
vsjokester
  • Archaic
344 7.7

A funny person who behaves in a strange and entertaining way

focuses on enjoying and telling jokes rather than eccentric personality
comedian
vsjokester
267 1.7

A person who makes people laugh by telling jokes or acting

is used about anyone enjoying joke-telling, not only people who perform for pay
comic
vsjokester
145 2.5

A person who tells jokes to make people laugh

is broader, describing any person who jokes for fun, not just pros
wit
vsjokester
53 4.8

A person who thinks quickly and says clever, funny things

prefers telling and playing jokes rather than focusing on clever verbal skill
joker
vsjokester
35 2.4

A person who likes to tell jokes and make others laugh

has the same meaning and frequent joking focus as the other term
goofball
vsjokester
  • Slang
23 7.5

A silly person who acts funny to make others laugh

enjoys telling or playing jokes rather than only acting silly or childish
kidder
vsjokester
  • Informal
16 3.5

A person who jokes and teases others to make them laugh

focuses on general joking and playing jokes rather than teasing specifically
wag
vsjokester
15 7.5

A person who likes to tell jokes to make people laugh

relies on telling or playing jokes for amusement rather than mainly clever remarks
humorist
vsjokester
  • US
12 5.0

A person who makes people laugh by telling funny stories or jokes

enjoys telling or playing jokes casually rather than producing written or formal work
funnyman
vsjokester
5 3.7

A man who makes people laugh by telling jokes or acting in a silly way

refers to any person who enjoys telling or playing jokes, not only men
cut-up
vsjokester
  • Archaic
3 7.8

A person who acts silly to make others laugh

prefers telling or acting out jokes rather than staging practical pranks
gasser
vsjokester
  • Archaic
1 8.6

A very funny person or thing that makes people laugh

enjoys telling or playing jokes often rather than just causing big laugh effects
funster
vsjokester
  • Informal
1 8.9

A person who makes others laugh in a group

is more about individual enjoyment and joke telling rather than group focus
japer
vsjokester
  • Archaic
1 8.8

A person who makes jokes to make others laugh

focuses on enjoying and telling jokes without necessarily mocking others
wagger
vsjokester
1 9.0

A person who tells quick jokes to make people laugh

enjoys physical or verbal jokes more broadly instead of only witty remarks
wisecracker
vsjokester
  • Informal
1 7.1

A person who often makes short funny or sarcastic remarks

enjoys friendly joking and playful behavior without mainly using sarcasm
punster
vsjokester
1 8.0

A person who often makes jokes by using the double meanings of words

uses jokes more broadly, not limited to puns or wordplay
quipster
vsjokester
7.9

A person who often makes short clever remarks

focuses more on telling or acting out jokes rather than brief clever lines

Antonyms

killjoy
  • Offensive
8 6.9

A person who stops other people from having fun

How Funny

comic
145 2.5
jokester
7 4.4
prankster
24 4.1

Surface Forms

jokester singular
jokesters plural

Morphology

jokester = joke (transparent) = joke + ster

The meaning is directly derived from 'joke' with an agentive informal suffix '-ster', yielding 'a person who tells or plays jokes.'

Etymology

Jokester comes from the word joke plus the ending -ster, which was used to make a word mean 'a person who does something', as in youngster. So a jokester is simply someone who tells or plays jokes to make others laugh.