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A joke wearing formal clothes, usually told before the word existed in your group chat.
means A joke or witty remark, or the act of joking around rather than speaking seriously.
from From Latin gesta, deeds or exploits — once your heroic adventures, then the stories about them, then the funny stories, then just the funny.
Court careerMedieval jesters made mockery a salaried profession.
In jestThe phrase that legally absolves any insult.
Gest to jestNoble deeds devolved into one-liners over centuries.