jesting vs joking

jesting

noun

  • joking 

  • bantering; ridicule 

  • mocking 

adj

  • humorous 

  • playful; mocking 

  • facetious 

  • jeering 

joking

noun

  • The act of telling or engaging in jokes. 

verb

  • Kidding, trying to fool. 

How often have the words jesting and joking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )