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Webster 1828 Edition
Joking
JO'KING
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Definition 2025
joking
joking
English
Verb
joking
- present participle of joke
- (Britain, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.
- Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!
Noun
joking (plural jokings)
- The act of telling or engaging in jokes.
- Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
- No low beatings and knockings about, no jokings and squeakings like your precious Punches, but always the same, with a constantly unchanging air of coldness and gentility […]
- Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop