kidding

Speech parts

1. kidding - Noun

2. kidding - Verb

Derived from kid

Meaning

of Kid

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

josh repartee comedy trick humor joke funny laugh fool hoax laughter ridicule deceive mocking joking

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Antonyms

major heavy critical hard serious deep

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Phrases with the word

you've got to be kidding who am I kidding whom am I kidding I'm kidding kidding oneself not kidding

Examples

Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not. Ayelet Waldman

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. John Updike

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps. Douglas Coupland

I'm totally not kidding. ... Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing. Miranda July

Death is a great tragedy...a profound loss...I don't accept it...I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death. Ray Kurzweil

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding. Kurt Vonnegut

Close letter words and terms

kiddified kiddily kiddiness kidding aside kidding me kidding oneself