joust
verb/dʒaʊst/
/dʒaʊst/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they joust | /dʒaʊst/ /dʒaʊst/ |
| he / she / it jousts | /dʒaʊsts/ /dʒaʊsts/ |
| past simple jousted | /ˈdʒaʊstɪd/ /ˈdʒaʊstɪd/ |
| past participle jousted | /ˈdʒaʊstɪd/ /ˈdʒaʊstɪd/ |
| -ing form jousting | /ˈdʒaʊstɪŋ/ /ˈdʒaʊstɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to fight on horses using a long stick (= a lance) to try to knock the other person off their horse, especially as part of a formal contest in the past
- [intransitive] (formal) to argue with somebody, especially as part of a formal or public debateTopics Opinion and argumentc2
Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘join battle, engage’): from Old French jouster ‘bring together’, based on Latin juxta ‘near’.
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