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Joker vs Joking - What's the difference?

joker | joking |

As nouns the difference between joker and joking

is that joker is joker while joking is the act of telling or engaging in jokes.

As a verb joking is

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joker

English

(wikipedia joker)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who makes jokes.
  • (slang) A funny person.
  • A jester.
  • A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
  • An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
    • Some joker keeps changing this web page.
  • (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.

    • Synonyms

    * (jester ): court jester, fool, jester

    Related terms

    * joke

    See also

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    See also

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    joking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (British, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.
    • Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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

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