jesting vs kidding

jesting

noun

  • joking 

  • bantering; ridicule 

  • mocking 

adj

  • humorous 

  • playful; mocking 

  • facetious 

  • jeering 

kidding

noun

  • The action of the verb kid. 

  • The act of a goat giving birth. 

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