jestingly

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) In jest; jokingly.
 * 2) * 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;
 * 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;