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Joking meaning

  1. present participle and gerund of joke
  2. Kidding, trying to fool.

Synonyms of Joking

Using Joking

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of joke | Kidding, trying to fool.
  • Useful related words include: jesting, jocose, jocular, humorous.
  • In the example corpus, joking often appears in combinations such as: joking about, joking that, was joking.

Context around Joking

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Joking

  • In this selection, "joking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, half, party, handy, loophole, aside and musk stand out and add context to how "joking" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include after joking that the and all joking aside the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "joking" sits close to words such as bryce, businessmen and chevron, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with joking

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Except she’s not entirely joking. (6 words)

Half joking about Iron Fist though. (6 words)

That handy joking/not-joking loophole has become an ugly part of our politics. (14 words)

After the game, Sosa held up a bottle of Flintstones vitamins to the reporters, joking that his home run power comes from eating little, tiny Freds and Barneys, a reference to the controversial androstenedione pills that McGwire has taken this season. (41 words)

Cardle was restored to John Potter's starting line-up, for only his second start in nine games, for last Friday's scoreless draw at Falkirk, joking afterwards that "they don't seem to like me here for some reason". (40 words)

Broad, half-joking, even commented that he was gutted that there hasn’t been a fly-on-the-wall style documentary being made about this England team over the past year, such has been the rate of change. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

The article includes plenty of quotes from scholars explaining the history here and why Trump is not joking, as well as the many other times Trump falsely claimed to be "joking" when he was not.

She pretends like she’s joking, but considering the fact that she does it with every family we meet, I think she’s only party joking.

That handy joking/not-joking loophole has become an ugly part of our politics.

After joking that the people in charge of upkeep on her new home "shred hundred dollar notes for fertilizer," Nan offers the Roy siblings high-end wine.

After noticing the host had been looking slightly perplexed by the dog in her background, she introduced the pair to Charlie, joking he was having a morning nap and had decided he ‘needed a bit of airtime’.

After the game, Sosa held up a bottle of Flintstones vitamins to the reporters, joking that his home run power comes from eating little, tiny Freds and Barneys, a reference to the controversial androstenedione pills that McGwire has taken this season.

All joking aside, the truth is this platform has become extremely popular in the past several years.

A meeting between Kim Jong-un and CIA director Mike Pompeo in North Korea's capital Pyongyang led to the duo joking about attempts on the world leader's life.

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Amid widespread confusion about whether Musk's Twitter account had been hacked or he was joking, Musk followed up a few hours later with suggesting a deal was imminent.

An Australian woman says Russell Brand followed her into a bathroom and showed her his penis before joking about it on air.

A seemingly awkward exchange becomes hilarious when they both realize that the other is just joking around.

Asked whether they bought anything else prior to leaving the UK, Ms Begum said she packed around 30 bars of Aero mint chocolate, joking that it is “a tragedy” it cannot be found in Syria.

As the trend becomes ever popular, TikTokers have been mocking their own viewing patterns, joking about how they cannot concentrate on what they are watching unless subtitles are on.

Before stepping inside the car, the brother and sister pair are seen joking around.

Before their discovery Thursday morning, the teenagers say they were joking about possibly finding buried treasure or dinosaur bones – never expecting they’d find part of a human.

Broad, half-joking, even commented that he was gutted that there hasn’t been a fly-on-the-wall style documentary being made about this England team over the past year, such has been the rate of change.

But psychologists (and 25-year-olds) have been thinking (and half-joking) about it, to different degrees and under different names, since the mid-20th century.

Cardle was restored to John Potter's starting line-up, for only his second start in nine games, for last Friday's scoreless draw at Falkirk, joking afterwards that "they don't seem to like me here for some reason".

Except she’s not entirely joking.

Half joking about Iron Fist though.

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Common combinations with joking

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "joking" in a sentence?
An example: "The article includes plenty of quotes from scholars explaining the history here and why Trump is not joking, as well as the many other times Trump falsely claimed to be "joking" when he was not." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "joking" from authentic English texts.
What does "joking" mean?
Joking means: present participle and gerund of joke
What are synonyms of "joking"?
Common synonyms of "joking" include: jesting, jocose, jocular, humorous, humourous.
How many example sentences with "joking" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "joking", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.