[f. JOKE sb. + SMITH: cf. rimesmith.] A manufacturer of jokes.
1813. Southey, Lett. (1856), II. 336 (D.). I feared to give occasion to the jests of newspaper jokesmiths. Ibid. (1820), Devil’s Walk (D.). My jokesmith Sidney, and all his kidney.
1886. Sat. Rev., 20 March, 400/1. To judge from the tone of the untimely jokesmith’s letter.
