jesting vs jolly

jesting

adj

  • playful; mocking 

  • humorous 

  • facetious 

  • jeering 

noun

  • bantering; ridicule 

  • joking 

  • mocking 

jolly

adj

  • Full of merriment and high spirits; jovial; joyous; merry. 

  • drunk 

verb

  • To amuse or divert. 

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