joust

Meanings

Noun

• A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.

Verb

• To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
• To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally)
• To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex.

Related

Similar words

• tilt

Origin

• From Middle English, borrowed from Old French jouster (modern French jouter), from Vulgar Latin *iuxto, from Latin iūxta ("close to"). English since the early 14th century.