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joking

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?d?owk??/

Verb

joking

  1. present participle of joke
  2. (Britain, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.
    Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!

Noun

joking (plural jokings)

  1. The act of telling or engaging in jokes.
    • 1840-41, 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 […]

Anagrams

  • jingko

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witticism

English

Etymology

witty +? -icism; coined in the 1670s by John Dryden, by analogy to criticism.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /?w?.t?.s?z.?m/

Noun

witticism (plural witticisms)

  1. a witty remark
    • 1883: George Eliot, The Essays of George Eliot, chapter 4
      Shock of the witticism is a powerful one; while mere fun will have no power over them if it jar on their moral taste.
    • 2015: Hans Rollman, Freedom of Speech: It’s Complicated, PopMatters
      While the occasional wry witticism seeps through, overall Shipler is painfully conscientious about trying to offer both sides of any debate.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:joke

Translations

See also

  • bon mot
  • gag
  • jape
  • joke
  • one-liner

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