What is another word for funning?

Pronunciation: [fˈʌnɪŋ] (IPA)

"Funning" is a verb that means to engage in playful or teasing behavior. There are numerous synonyms for this word, including joking, jesting, teasing, ribbing, taunting, bantering, and kidding around. All of these words suggest lighthearted and humorous behavior intended to entertain or amuse others. Additionally, "funning" can also be replaced by using expressions like clowning around, horsing around, or fooling around, to convey a sense of carefree or frivolous behavior. Regardless of which synonym one uses to describe "funning," the sentiment remains the same; it is all about having fun and not taking oneself too seriously.

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Usage examples for Funning

Al-Razi cried, "Get thee to business, and leave funning."
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
Well, you see, they were just funning, and had got going, and it was Thanksgiving, anyway.
"Christmas Every Day and Other Stories"
W. D. Howells
"Well, we'll call it hatched," said the papa; but they knew he was just funning.
"Christmas Every Day and Other Stories"
W. D. Howells

Famous quotes with Funning

  • Standing still as a statue in the October shadows, he looked, grotesquely, more like a patriot than anything usually seen on a baseball field. A trick of light perhaps. Yet what famous athlete last died for a cause bigger than himself? Clemente could sometimes seem like a pest, a nagging narcissist, with only his burningly serious play to deny it. Yet when that plane crashed carrying relief supplies to Nicaragua we saw what he had meant all along. It was like the old Clemente crashing into the right field wall in a losing game: the act of a totally serious man. By chance I met Clemente once, in the humble role of autograph-seeker. He was doing wind sprints down at the Pirate training camp in Bradenton, Florida. And although I claimed I was getting an autograph for my son (true, for a change), he looked at me with a hidalgo’s contempt – at a grown man simpering over a blunt pencil; he turned his back abruptly and did another wind sprint, then slashed his name onto my scorecard and sauntered away. To hell with you, Clemente, I thought. But on the way out, I saw him funning with three old ladies from Allentown, Pennsylvania, and I have never seen sweeter courtesy.
    Wilfrid Sheed

Related words: funny, prank, joke, prankster, jokes

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