jeu d'esprit

1. 1.

   a witty comment or writing

   Broaderwit

   France

Questions about jeu d'esprit

What does jeu d'esprit mean?

jeu d'esprit means "a witty comment or writing".

Is jeu d'esprit a common word?

jeu d'esprit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.