Obs. [f. JESTING vbl. sb. + STOCK sb.: cf. gazing-stock, laughing-stock.] An object of jest or ridicule; a laughing-stock.
1535. Coverdale, Job xvii. 6. I am his gestinge stocke.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 214. Wee are to all the heathen a iesting stocke to laugh at.
1632. Massinger, City Madam, IV. iv. He’s your ‘kind brother’ now; but yesterday, Your slave and jesting-stock.
