What's the difference between jester and mester?

Jester


Definition:

  • (n.) A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
  • (n.) A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He may not be able to cling to his status as the nation's court jester, however, without the BBC's patronage.
  • (2) We have come to expect this from Trump – the court jester of global politics,” said Issa Falaha, a Beirut banker.
  • (3) They had noticed the Jester's pro-censorship credentials, deducing he must be receiving help.
  • (4) Updated at 4.24pm BST 4.19pm BST Snooker books: Infinite Jester from Leicester, by David Foster Wallace.
  • (5) Racist jokes (some of which would have gone over my roof rack if I had been a Top Gear viewer) and an assault cost him his BBC slot , but he keeps his perch in the Murdoch press and, so I suspect, as court jester in the Cotswolds.
  • (6) The, ahem, Jester from Leicester (it's no Sheriff of Pottingham) did pretty well to get out of last night's second session with a three-frame deficit and keep himself well in this match, but O'Sullivan is looking pretty close to his brilliant best.
  • (7) For days, from their darkened chatrooms, the Anonymous ones had been watching a hacker called the Jester who seemed to be co-ordinating a series of attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks.
  • (8) ; The Season Saga; The Clod Hoper, Belly Laughs, The Little Woman, Pulp Fairies; The Grumpy Court Jester (BBC Children’s television – Playdays); Fact of Faith (BBC Radio Drama Young Writer’s Festival); The Victim (Royal Court Young Writer’s Festival & InterPlay Festival, Australia).
  • (9) I used to have a laugh and a joke with the compere, Richard Beare, and he gave me the nickname the Jester from Leicester.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke The idea that the genre could have greater aspirations is only a surprise because we’ve become used to stoner characters as affable, harmless, bong-toting jesters awesomely out of kilter with the adult world: Cheech and Chong, Floyd from True Romance , Jay and Silent Bob, Harold and Kumar.
  • (11) That's no joke for The Jester", reckons Gary Naylor.
  • (12) If I was King and he was my jester he'd be off to the gibbet."
  • (13) Selby, 23, the man called the jester from Leicester, had played his most damaging practical joke to date.
  • (14) Once again, Liverpool's sage and jester, Jimmy McGovern, is the voice of the people (for him, the destruction of Edge Lane, ostensibly for a road-widening of a matter of inches, was the last straw).
  • (15) As court jesters tweaking the nose of the powerful, they are quite possibly helping to keep the nation sane.
  • (16) The paper carried a picture of the Australian prime minister dressed as a court jester, with a simple headline: “THE WRONG TONE” .
  • (17) The lyrics reference sexual disease, brown dwarf stars, court jesters and dictators, all delivered in a strangulated baritone, as if Walker's testicles were being squeezed.
  • (18) Party politics: why grime defines the sound of protest in 2016 Read more Despite all this, Stormzy is more than just the jester of the grime scene.
  • (19) He added Johnson was a “court jester” but not a serious politician and said that the Conservatives Johnson had divided would not be loyal to him after leaving the EU.
  • (20) In 2008 Wright quit the BBC's Match of the Day claiming that the corporation is out of touch and that he was expected to be a "comedy jester".

Mester


Definition:

  • (n.) See Mister, a trade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Loretta Mester, president of the Fed’s bank in Cleveland, last week said the time to hike rates was “quickly approaching”.
  • (2) Gastric ulcer induced in rats by restraint were reduced by 40% (Mester et al.)
  • (3) Tamoxifen is a potent anti-estrogen in the chicken oviduct [Sutherland, R., Mester, J., & Baulieu, E.E.
  • (4) This observation is consistent with a previous report suggesting from specific activity determination, scanning of polyacrylamide gels, and cross-linking experiments that each purified nontransformed progesterone receptor molecule includes one progesterone binding unit per two 90-kDa protein molecules (Renoir, J. M., Buchou, T., Mester, J., Radanyi, C., and Baulieu, E. E. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 6016-6023).
  • (5) The nontransformed forms of the chick oviduct cytosol progesterone receptor of sedimentation coefficient approximately 8 S (8S-PR) are heterooligomers including one hormone binding molecule, either B, approximately 110,000, or A, approximately 79,000, and two non-hormone binding subunits recently identified as heat-shock protein Mr approximately 90,000 (hsp 90) [Renoir, J. M., Buchou, T., Mester, J., Radanyi, C., & Baulieu, E. E. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 6016-6023].
  • (6) Abortion case studies of two young women revealed that stress-inducing factors (e.g., sudden termination of a complex hormonal process, surgical aggression, frustration of maternal drive) caused by abortion can either contribute to personality growth and maturation and improved social adjustment (Mester, 1976), or to the development of overt psychopathology in sensitive subjects (Winnik, 1969).

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