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Noun
▲
Something done or said to amuse people
joke
crack
gag
quip
sally
wisecrack
witticism
josh
play
sport
banter
funny
one-liner
pleasantry
fun
jape
boff
boffo
boffola
butt
derision
drollery
game
giggle
hoax
laugh
laughingstock
mark
mock
mockery
nifty
prank
pun
rib
target
waggery
yuck
yuk
comeback
repartee
bon mot
canard
clown
funny remark
jive
jolly
rib-tickler
ridicule
spoof
play on words
more ❯
“Quebec never made demands to the federal government in jest or with flippant jokes.”
Noun
▲
An act performed for amusement
prank
trick
dido
antic
caper
capriccio
escapade
frolic
gag
hoax
joke
knavery
monkeyshines
practical joke
rag
roguery
shavie
shines
waggery
jape
lark
leg-pull
put-on
piece of mischief
stunt
tomfoolery
shenanigan
skylarking
high jinks
game
crack
deception
bluff
amusing time
clowning
devilry
didoes
con
canard
bird
outing
carousal
fooling about
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state of being jocose
jocosity
comedy
drollery
funniness
comicality
humorousness
drollness
wit
jocularity
jocoseness
wittiness
facetiousness
flippancy
buffoonery
clowning
amusement
gaiety
comicalness
jesting
fun
badinage
banter
farce
tomfoolery
farcicality
playfulness
witticism
levity
gag
happiness
joyfulness
raillery
ridiculousness
ludicrousness
whimsy
joke
lightness
pleasantry
wisecrack
joking
kidding
zaniness
high spirits
jokiness
lightheartedness
nonsense
whimsicality
outlandishness
nonsensicality
impishness
frivolity
roguishness
shenanigans
frivolousness
triviality
waggery
mirth
light-heartedness
absurdness
witticisms
wisecracking
merriment
flightiness
childishness
folly
repartee
picnic
laughs
quirkiness
quaintness
teasing
naughtiness
archness
outrageousness
light-mindedness
character
vein
spirits
propensity
temper
notion
mind
makeup
bee
bias
individualism
personality
complexion
individuality
fancy
conceit
vagary
tone
caprice
bent
disposition
whim
strain
quirk
nature
devilry
good humor
cheerfulness
roguery
vivacity
conviviality
cheeriness
liveliness
carefreeness
jokes
rascality
ridiculosity
frame of mind
laughter
giddiness
devilment
jests
chaffing
glee
joviality
jollity
deviltry
funnies
entertainment
takeoff
funny side
merry-go-round
camp
grins
send-up
hoopla
interlude
travesty
ball
comical aspect
schtick
diablerie
fickleness
skittishness
irreverence
light-headedness
blitheness
frothiness
sportiveness
puns
gags
quips
wickedness
wisecracks
field day
comic drama
play on
gag show
high camp
fun and games
high time
knavery
good cheer
trifling
festivity
volatility
buoyancy
witty remarks
cracks
funny remarks
one-liners
devilishness
hob
doubles entendres
bodily fluid
bons mots
asininity
eccentricity
inanity
craziness
strangeness
madness
goofiness
inaneness
incongruency
witlessness
fatuity
ludicrosity
senselessness
oddness
foolery
brainlessness
mindlessness
lunacy
fatuousness
hijinks
puerility
idiocy
wackiness
nuttiness
insanity
illogicalness
imbecility
clownery
oafishness
unconventionality
simplicity
daftness
incongruity
incongruousness
bizarreness
gormlessness
balminess
monkeying
skylarking
horseplay
unwisdom
moronism
moronity
wildness
monkeyshines
dottiness
doltishness
clownishness
cloddishness
foppery
dippiness
high jinks
monkey business
horsing around
more ❯
Noun
▲
Senseless talk or writing
tommyrot
nonsense
hogwash
drivel
rubbish
twaddle
garbage
malarkey
poppycock
claptrap
baloney
balderdash
blather
bunk
piffle
rot
codswallop
tosh
bull
guff
trash
bunkum
hooey
crock
bilge
moonshine
hokum
flapdoodle
humbug
bosh
folly
applesauce
fiddlesticks
boloney
horsefeathers
blarney
crapola
foolishness
blither
silliness
senselessness
stupidity
slush
blah
malarky
fudge
muck
hokeypokey
jazz
nuts
flannel
tripe
gibberish
taradiddle
trumpery
drool
hoodoo
tarradiddle
blatherskite
buncombe
fiddle
beans
falderal
folderol
nerts
punk
babble
prattle
bombast
absurdity
inanity
palaver
jive
rigmarole
idiocy
fatuity
madness
irrationality
ludicrousness
imprudence
verbiage
trivia
cant
abracadabra
codology
double-talk
gas
blabber
triviality
stuff
Greek
chatter
flimflam
slobber
gibber
burble
unintelligible language
hocus-pocus
obscure language
talk
grandiloquence
trifles
doublespeak
foolish talk
trivialities
minutiae
argle-bargle
double talk
prating
boasting
verbosity
wind
dreck
footle
small change
small beer
dross
pomposity
small potatoes
rhetoric
oratory
rant
flattery
memorabilia
bragging
sweet talk
minutia
gab
fine points
jabbering
gossip
tattle
wittering
candyfloss
bluster
smooth talk
equivocation
legalese
junk
sleaze
drek
slop
cheese
spiel
braggadocio
irrelevancies
rodomontade
magniloquence
fanfaronade
turgidity
idle talk
bagatelle
nothing
euphuism
picayune
nonproblem
chitchat
shucks
carrying-on
rambling
twitter
padding
yackety-yak
yabbering
yatter
Choctaw
nattering
chuntering
hypocrisy
malaise
bean
ja
prolixity
officialese
quackery
charlatanry
fantasy
fiction
corn
clack
twattle
wordiness
trickery
falsehood
deceit
amphibiology
stultiloquence
bravado
lies
logorrhoea
meaningless talk
small fry
peanuts
doggerel
blandishments
refuse
technobabble
obscuration
pulp
yammer
futile talk
useless words
swing
Dixieland
bop
blues
ragtime
bebop
boogie
prevarication
evasion
hedging
lunacy
all Greek
ravings
boogie-woogie
crud
rigamarole
smoke and mirrors
improvisational music
fusion jazz
hot jazz
scat
mere words
horse feathers
overpraise
taffy
adulation
honeyed words
incense
butter
pabulum
pablum
story
saga
bafflegab
nonsense talk
guyver
smoodging
weasel words
verbalizingUS
jibber-jabber
sophistry
blandishment
buttering up
details
explanation
overelaboration
excuse
yarn
account
pulp fiction
verbalisingUK
amphigory
macaronics
boastful talk
niceties
technicalities
petty details
song and dance
non-essentials
loftiness
pettiness
shallowness
superficiality
lightheartedness
inconsequentiality
portentousness
pompousness
ornateness
pedantry
boastfulness
slang
patter
windiness
orotundity
sonorousness
pretentiousness
gasconade
idiom
patois
argot
lingo
rhodomontade
brag
grandiosity
ostentation
affectedness
cockalorum
periphrasis
vernacular
dialect
tumidity
verboseness
altiloquence
pad
long-windedness
exaggeration
rave
bombastry
cotton
aureation
rhapsody
padded
stuffed
affectation
tympany
rage
parlance
extravagant boasting
psychobabble
vocabulary
language
computerese
terminology
bureaucratese
shop
usage
journalese
tongue
shoptalk
bombard phrase
purple prose
inessential
fandangle
specialized language
-speak
-ese
netspeak
technical language
cliché
geekspeak
deets
incidental
insipidity
colloquialism
newspeak
banality
neologism
slanguage
speech
lexicon
no big thing
fine point
thing of no consequence
no great matter
thing of no importance
minor technicality
non-essential
small technicality
mere detail
minor detail
small detail
petty detail
matter of no consequence
matter of no importance
little thing
much ado about nothing
minor thing
leetspeak, l33tspeak
stale language
overused term
trite language
hackneyed term
commonplace term
street talk
more ❯
Noun
▲
A lack of seriousness, especially in the context of fun or entertainment
frivolity
frivolousness
levity
flightiness
flippancy
puerility
silliness
triviality
facetiousness
jocularity
joking
skittishness
superficiality
unimportance
vacuity
zaniness
dizziness
foolishness
frothiness
fun
gaiety
giddiness
inanity
childishness
coquetting
daftness
dippiness
ditziness
flirting
folly
fribble
frippery
game
inconsequentiality
lightheartedness
merriment
nonsense
perkiness
play
playfulness
shallowness
sport
toying
trifling
whimsicality
whimsy
dallying
lightness
light-heartedness
empty-headedness
light-headedness
light-mindedness
mirth
humourUK
humorUS
joviality
cheerfulness
drollery
cheeriness
amusement
absurdity
hilarity
jesting
glee
wit
laughter
wittiness
jollity
senselessness
asininity
comedy
high spirits
fatuity
festivity
irresponsibility
jokiness
madness
imbecility
lunacy
waggishness
brainlessness
fatuousness
buoyancy
craziness
insanity
irreverence
foolery
simplicity
mirthfulness
hollowness
paltriness
insignificance
triteness
carefreeness
repartee
good cheer
conviviality
fickleness
funniness
raillery
banter
pleasantry
volatility
tomfoolery
badinage
blitheness
witlessness
nonsensicalness
preposterousness
wackiness
nuttiness
idiocy
clowning
emptiness
balminess
hijinks
shenanigans
unwisdom
dottiness
clownery
happiness
laughs
slapstick
inaneness
bêtise
cheer
monkeying
skylarking
horseplay
monkeyshines
mindlessness
irrationality
ludicrousness
exhilaration
joyousness
buffoonery
gleefulness
gayness
jocundity
gayety
merriness
ridiculousness
joyfulness
delight
stupidity
entertainment
hysterics
nonsensicality
foppery
high jinks
monkey business
horsing around
unseriousness
pettiness
insubstantiality
inappropriateness
glibness
worthlessness
capriciousness
airheadedness
whimsicalness
roughhouse
roughhousing
vapidity
pleasure
malarkey
futility
scattiness
impulsiveness
overexcitement
immaturity
crassness
pointlessness
revelry
ineptitude
frolic
merrymaking
rejoicing
injudiciousness
chaff
roguishness
impishness
cheekiness
mischievousness
elation
euphoria
gladness
exuberance
meaninglessness
fruitlessness
rashness
impracticality
foolhardiness
fooling around
archness
insouciance
sauciness
sassiness
enjoyment
joy
boisterousness
lack of depth
lack of substance
vivacity
liveliness
whoopee
frolics
kicks
frolicsomeness
hysteria
convulsions
jollification
jauntiness
joshing
give-and-take
teasing
backchat
sportiveness
wordplay
mockery
chaffing
picnic
persiflage
eccentricity
absurdness
strangeness
outlandishness
goofiness
incongruency
ludicrosity
oddness
risibility
illogicalness
oafishness
unconventionality
jocoseness
illogicality
witticism
comicality
humorousness
jocosity
incongruity
wisecracking
incongruousness
bizarreness
uproariousness
comicalness
farcicalness
farcicality
hilariousness
unreasonableness
gormlessness
drollness
moronism
moronity
wildness
doltishness
clownishness
cloddishness
more ❯
Noun
▲
High-spirited state
playfulness
bounce
bounciness
frolicsomeness
gaiety
liveliness
merrymaking
spirit
waggishness
good nature
vivacity
high spirits
cheerfulness
jauntiness
merriment
revelry
conviviality
mirth
fun
whoopee
festivity
frolic
joviality
gleefulness
jocundity
merriness
cheer
hilarity
glee
revel
more ❯
Verb
▲
Speak in a joking way
crack
gag
joke
quip
sally
banter
pun
wisecrack
crack jokes
tell jokes
make a joke
crack a joke
play with words
kid
slang
clown
jape
jolly
yuk
rag
needle
revel
yuck
kid around
horse around
poke fun
play the clown
make merry
“I sipped my ale, and wondered what if anything the two men had spoken of while I jested with Hildfleda.”
Verb
▲
To tell a joke or talk in a playful manner
kid
fool
joke
tease
fun
josh
quip
banter
chaff
mock
gag
hoax
jape
jeer
jive
jolly
scoff
sneer
wisecrack
yuck
yuk
deride
gibe
shuck
flout
fool about
fool around
gird
have on
needle
rag
razz
rib
roast
spoof
wind up
play a prank
play a practical joke
put on
make a monkey out of
bait
sneer at
chiack
pillory
goad
annoy
insult
harass
pick on
flout at
torment
treat with contempt
badger
pester
provoke
rot
hassle
skewer
plague
hold up to ridicule
irritate
bedevil
aggravate
harry
sledge
give a hard time
poke borak at
laugh to scorn
slam
heap scorn on
shoot down
worry
disturb
dog
nudge
persecute
vex
treat contemptuously
lead on
hound
call names
devil
hector
irk
torture
nag
tantalizeUS
criticizeUS
tantaliseUK
hold up to shame
disdain
swipe at
jab
lout
criticiseUK
pour scorn on
dump on
abuse
hurl insults at
make fun
flitter
frazzle
kid around
knock
censure
caricaturize
diss
pasquinade
squib
make a joke of
contemn
slight
dismiss
detract
denigrate
tear to pieces
buffoon
hoot
vilify
show contempt
show contempt for
nark
gall
dis
detract from
play a trick on
thumb nose at
get
revile
cock a snook at
do a number on
anger
take for a ride
get at
gibe at
reproach
affront
offend
slap
dig
upbraid
twitter
outrage
hack you off
trouble
get on the nerves of
be on the back of
lead up the garden path
get in the hair of
give someone a hard time
victimizeUS
bully
chivvy
anguish
afflict
besiege
beset
rack
excruciate
curse
nettle
harrow
agonizeUS
expose to ridicule
hurt
smite
agoniseUK
punish
victimiseUK
break
try
wring
be a nuisance to
laugh out of court
be a pest to
give someone grief
drive bananas
make someone a laughing stock
put through wringer
play cat and mouse
lead someone a merry dance
rub salt in wound
drive up the wall
titillate
arouse
importune
manipulate
encourage
gnaw
sound
beleaguer
excite
snap
flirt with
be at
lead somebody on
more ❯
“He enjoyed drinking and jesting with his cronies.”
Verb
▲
Behave in a comical or playful way
clown
joke
fool around
act foolishly
fool about
lark
mess about
play about
act the clown
cut up
horse around
lark about
mess around
monkey about
monkey around
play around
play the fool
play tricks
act the fool
horse about
indulge in horseplay
lark around
muck about
muck around
act the goat
engage in high jinks
act crazy
be silly
bug out
clown around
have fun
kid around
play the goat
play for laughs
play the giddy goat
footle about
footle around
clown about
act the jennet
act the maggot
footle
futz
idle
play up
misbehave
be naughty
be bad
cause trouble
act up
lollygag
fiddle about
waste time
act the giddy goat
get up to mischief
get up to no good
fanny about
fanny around
make mischief
behave badly
forget oneself
act badly
misconduct oneself
give someone trouble
dawdle
hang around
potter
sin
trespass
transgress
lapse
fall
offend
be mischievous
wander
degenerate
stray
go wrong
deviate
do wrong
kill time
err
be out of order
fall from grace
go astray
blot your copybook
cause a commotion
create
cause a fuss
be up to no good
kick back
goof off
lazy
laze
loll
bum
dillydally
chill
hang out
lounge
drone
hack around
loaf
veg out
play pranks
screw around
puddle around
puddle about
more ❯
Verb
▲
To smile in a scornful or deprecating manner
snigger
smile
snicker
laugh
sneer
affront
belittle
burlesque
caricature
crack
decry
deride
detract
disdain
disparage
dump
fleer
flout
gibe
gird
grin
insult
jeer
lampoon
leer
rally
ridicule
satiriseUK
satirizeUS
scoff
scorn
slam
slight
swipe
taunt
travesty
twit
underrate
laugh at
put down
quip at
rank out
sneeze at
sniff at
curl one's lip
give Bronx cheer
hold in contempt
look down on
hold up to ridicule
turn up one's nose
more ❯
Verb
▲
Make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice
jeer
deride
mock
ridicule
heckle
hector
taunt
abuse
jibe
laugh at
insult
knock
tease
boo
catcall
gibe
hiss
interrupt
scorn
banter
barrack
scoff
scoff at
scout
skewer
sneer
sneer at
contemn
flout
jibe at
shout at
shout disapproval
shout down
blow raspberries
boo at
catcall at
comeback
dig
fleer
hiss at
hoot
hoot at
jab
quip
shoot down
shout disapproval at
snipe
whistle at
blow raspberries at
flout at
call names
poke fun
put down
put on
cock a snook at
make a crack
give someone a hard time
rubbish
undervalue
slate
drag through the mud
do a hatchet job on
misprize
smear
lower
attack
traduce
pull apart
trivializeUS
shame
pick holes in
write off
disgrace
do down
treat lightly
minify
rip
reduce
sully
trivialiseUK
take to pieces
hold cheap
speak ill of
taint
stain
stigmatizeUS
tarnish
blot
besmirch
bash
smirch
scandalizeUS
besmear
defile
blacken
spot
downgrade
hit out at
bring shame upon
stigmatiseUK
tar and feather
give a black eye
drag through the mire
scandaliseUK
reflect badly on
sling mud at
bring into disrepute
bring shame on
dispraise
rot
kiss off
soil
befoul
spoil
assail
damage
hate
muckrake
rip up and down
blotch
cast a slur on
bring discredit to
breathe on
give a bad name
spread scandal about
fling mud at
run smear campaign
fault
pull to pieces
find fault with
take down
laugh off
abhor
cut down to size
high-hat
snoot
lambaste
denounce
demean
sell short
scorch
cheapen
rap
undermine
look down upon
tear down
take down a peg
cavil at
abominate
blast
be contemptuous about
devalue
flay
renounce
regard with contempt
savage
make little of
sink
maul
feel contempt for
slag
reprehend
blame
humble
vituperate
bag
pummelUS
turn up your nose at
poor mouth
pummelledUK
denunciate
give a bad press to
throw brickbats at
give something a battering
look down nose at
speak badly of
poison
crush
downcry
comment negatively
opprobriate
make fun
flitter
frazzle
cock a snook
brush aside
tear to pieces
understate
squelch
squash
downplay
discountenance
prejudice
complain about
grouch about
grumble about
quibble about
carp about
moan about
grouse about
whine about
walk over
badmouth
hammer
make a joke of
clamor against
devaluate
depress
attenuate
blemish
poormouth
pooh pooh
sour grapes
chill
crucify
object
discommend
expostulate
mudsling
frown
bellyache about
whinge about
beef about
gripe about
nitpick over
wipe
wave aside
slam-dunk
snicker at
snigger at
blackguard
drag through mud
drag someone's name through the mud
ruin
sling mud
lessen
revalue
decrease
devalorize
give comeuppance
put away
knock off high horse
think little of
loathe
monster
smile at
detest
look down one's nose at
thumb one's nose at
thumb one's nose
mark down
write down
sound off about
take a swipe at
shoot full of holes
take apart
foul
chasten
take dim view of
not go for
be allergic to
express contempt
execrate
bring down
knock off
cut rate
nose dive
look down your nose at
criticize strongly
bring under fire
review unfavorably
cut up
berate
put in a bad light
give a bad name to
desecrate
disfavourUK
attaint
lose face
put someone in their place
disfavorUS
make someone eat crow
take down a peg or two
own
cause to lose face
carp at
sham
nit-pick
dislike
deplore
hold up to scorn
bedevil
skin
reprobate
cavil
shrink from
tear to shreds
titillate
talk something down
find intolerable
disrelish
importune
manipulate
dog
encourage
devil
arouse
harry
nudge
gnaw
sound
beleaguer
excite
snap
pick to pieces
find fault
neglect
eschew
be repelled by
play on
make a mockery of
flirt with
be at
allergic to
not be able to stomach
not be able to stand
feel contempt
not be able to bear
wipe out
mess
lead somebody on
lead on
give a hard time
have a down on
frolic
gambol
have no use for
be above
spit on
refuse
refute
piss over
confute
avoid
piss on
shuck someone
mess someone around
make a monkey out of someone
rot someone
mess about
mess someone about
put someone on
have someone on
play the fool
play tricks
play a joke
play a trick
consider beneath you
turn down
tear into
put hooks in
consider beneath one
turn back on
curl your lip at
give the Bronx cheer to
spit in the face of
spit in the eye of
turn nose up at
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