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Joking vs Kidding - What's the difference?

joking | kidding |

As verbs the difference between joking and kidding

is that joking is present participle of lang=en while kidding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between joking and kidding

is that joking is the act of telling or engaging in jokes while kidding is the action of the verb {{term|kid}}.

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

    Anagrams

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    kidding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * just kidding

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb (kid).
  • (agriculture) The act of a goat giving birth.
  • * 2006 , Robert S. Youngquist, Walter R. Threlfall, Current Therapy in Large Animal Theriogenology
    • Attended kiddings allow owners to remove the kids from their dams prior to suckling and ingestion of colostrum.

    Derived terms

    * no kidding