Joking vs Jocose - What's the difference?
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(British, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.
The act of telling or engaging in jokes.
* Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
As a verb joking
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun joking
is the act of telling or engaging in jokes.As an adjective jocose is
given to jest; habitually jolly.joking
English
Verb
(head)- Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!
Noun
(en noun)- 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