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Definition: KIDDING |
KIDDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Kid |
Date "KIDDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wit | Phrase: adhibenda est in jocando moderatio; "gentle dullness ever loves a joke"; "leave this keen encounter of our wits"; just joking, just kidding; "surely you jest!". |
Adjective: witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel, sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato; comic. | |
Wonder | Interjection: lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, gad so! welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it!; (inexpectation); you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons! how now! where am I? |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: KIDDING |
| Specialty definitions using "KIDDING": Aze ♦ GOAT HERDER ♦ HHOK ♦ j/k, just joshing ya. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Janie, I was kidding. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) No. No kidding, Cosmo (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) You're kidding. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) You've got to be kidding. (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis) I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik; spherical but quite pointy at parts (So I Married an Axe Murderer; writing credit: Robbie Fox.) | |
Lyrics | You thought they were all kidding you ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | You've Got to Be Kidding Doctor (1967) No Kidding (1960) Stop Kidding (1928) Quit Kidding (1924) Kidding Katie (1923) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Determining sea level - just kidding! Rodman at bench mark covered by floodwaters Mississippi River flood of 1935. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ah, we're O.K Just kidding! Photo #2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | C. William Hayes' first command Just kidding - checking batteries and electronics package. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Brooks Range visible miles away over the flat Arctic plain Such views lend credence to the flat earth theory Just kidding!. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Fred Walton proving that it's optional whether to walk upside-down or right-side up at the South Pole. Just kidding!. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Bell UH-1M ready to load recruited reindeer for Santa's sleigh. Just kidding! Caribou passing by helicopter supporting bird observation camp on North Slope. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Sea cucumber being prepared for salad. Just kidding! The knife is for scale. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "KIDDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.32% of the time. "KIDDING" is used about 229 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 94.32% | 216 | 20,583 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.24% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 229 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "KIDDING": just kidding ♦ you are kidding me!. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
just kidding | 43 |
no kidding | 27 |
kidding | 23 |
kidding around | 8 |
best kidding | 6 |
goat kidding | 5 |
just kidding video | 3 |
animal kidding | 3 |
kidding short sleeveless sweat wear | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "KIDDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مزاح (badinage, banter, fun, jest, joke, lark, playfulness, pleasantries, pleasantry, practical joke, raillery, waggery, wagging, waggish). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | майтап (leg pull, spoof), закачка (chaff, fun, gird, jest, pleasantry, rib, tease, twit, waggery, yak). (various references) | |
Chinese | 欺骗 (Bamboozle, Bamboozled, Bamboozling, Deceit, Deceive, Deceived, Deceiving, Deception, Deceptive, Delude, Deluded, Deluding, Foxed, Foxing, fraud, fraudulent, humbug, Impostrous, Imposturous, Kidded, ripoff, rip-off, Tricked, tricked-out, Tricking). (various references) | |
Danish | laemning (lambing). (various references) | |
Dutch | lammeren werpen (lambing), lammeren (lambing), lammen (lambing). (various references) | |
Finnish | karitsointi (lambing), karitsoiminen (lambing). (various references) | |
French | rire, plaisanterie, blague, agnelage. (various references) | |
German | veräppelnd, uzerei (teasing), scherzend (frolicing, jesting, jocose, joking), scherz (frolic, fun, gag, hoax, jest, joke, leg pull, play, pleasantry, spoof, tomfoolery, yoke), Lammen (lamb), flachs (flax), Ablammen (lambing). (various references) | |
Greek | κοροϊδία (hoax, jeer, jiggery pokery, mockery, raillery, spoof), αστεϊσμόσ (badinage, banter, hoax, jest, joke, rally, waggery), τοκετός (parturition). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ecean (fooling). (various references) | |
Italian | pecore (lambing), agnellatura (lambing). (various references) | |
Korean | 농담을 함. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iddingkay.(various references) | |
Romanian | nu, zãu? (you're kidding), glumeşti (you don't mean it, you're kidding), fãrã glumã (in good earnest, it is no joke, jesting apart, no joking, no kidding). (various references) | |
Russian | шутить (droll, jape, jest, joke, joked, joking, josh, trifle). (various references) | |
Spanish | paricion (birth, foaling, lambing, parturition). (various references) | |
Swedish | skoj (caper, chaff, cheating, fraud, Frisk, frolic, fun, gag, gyp, high jinks, humbug, humbuggery, imposture, jape, jest, jesting, joke, Josh, jugglery, lark, leg pull, sham, shenanigan, tomfoolery, trickery), lamning (lambing). (various references) | |
Turkish | dalga geçme (gibe, jape, jibe, making fun of smb., no kidding, pulling smb.'s leg, ridicule, wipe, wiper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "KIDDING": kiddingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "KIDDING": skidding. (additional references) | |
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"KIDDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kadin, kidden, Kiddi, kiddin, kiding, kidolgy, Kidongoi, Koding, lidding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "KIDDING" (pronounced ki"ding) |
| 5 | k i" d i ng | skidding. |
| 4 | -i" d i ng | bidding, forbidding, ridding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-g-i-i-k-n" | |
-1 letter: diking. | |
-3 letters: ding, dink, gink, kind, king, nidi. | |
-4 letters: did, dig, din, gid, gin, ink, kid, kin. | |
-5 letters: id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-g-i-i-k-n" | |
+1 letter: skidding. | |
+2 letters: kiddingly. | |
+3 letters: skiddooing. | |
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