Definition of "jestingly" in English

adverb

1. In jest; jokingly.

   • 1918, E. Craigie Melville, “In Camp” in Poems from the Trenches, Somerville, Mass.: The Thistle Press, p. 18, Still I shall hate to leave you for the sake of those splendid nights When the long, hard day is over and Sergeant has douzed the lights, And we lie on those beds of straw that unfortunate Tommies get, And jestingly jolly each other as we smoke a last cig’rette;