Joking vs Insisting - What's the difference?
joking | insisting |
(British, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.
The act of telling or engaging in jokes.
* Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
As verbs the difference between joking and insisting
is that joking is while insisting is .As a noun joking
is the act of telling or engaging in jokes.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