jest-monger

(jest’mung’gér), n. A retailer of Though for fashion’s sake called a parliament, yet by a jests; a joker. jesuitical sleight not acknowledged, though called so. Milton, Kikonoklastes, § 13. Some witlings and jest-mongers still remain For fools to laugh at. J. Baillie. He has been accused of a jeswitical tendency, of a disposition to find arguments in favor of acts after the acts