jestee

English

Etymology

jest +‎ -ee

Noun

jestee (plural jestees)

1. The individual who is the subject of a joke.
   • 1759-67, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy

     The mortgager and mortgagee differ the one from the other, not more in length of purse, than the jester and jestee do in that of memory.