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Mocking vs Joking - What's the difference?

mocking | joking |

As verbs the difference between mocking and joking

is that mocking is while joking is .

As nouns the difference between mocking and joking

is that mocking is action of the verb to mock while joking is the act of telling or engaging in jokes.

As an adjective mocking

is derisive or contemptuous.

mocking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • action of the verb to mock

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • derisive or contemptuous
  • teasing or taunting

    • Derived terms

    * mockingbird * mocking thrush * mocking wren

    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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