Synonyms for Joshing:

adj.
• absurd
- campier
- campiest
- campy
- for grins
- gagged up
- jokey
- flaky
- goofy
- idiotic
- illogical
- loony
- off the wall
- screwy
• amusing
- boffo
- gut-busting
- too funny for words
- Gladdening
- lively
- pleasant
- screaming
• jovial
- Conversable
- off-the-wall
- festal
• tongue-in-cheek
- kiddingly
- tongue in cheek
- in fun
- in jest
• comic/comical
- foolest
- gumper
- gumpest
- horses tail
- more foolheaded
- more gelastic
- more goofus
- more ironic
- more ridiculous
- more side splitting
- more side-splitting
- most comic
- most foolheaded
- most gelastic
- most goofus
- most side splitting
- most side-splitting
- schticker
- schtickest
- side splitting
• comical
- fool headed
- more fool headed
- more fool-headed
- most fool headed
- most fool-headed
• droll
- more clownish
- more crack up
- more crack-up
- more crackup
- more laffer
- most clownish
- most crack up
- most crack-up
- most crackup
- most laffer
- riotest
• facetious
- flippest
- in decorous
- in-decorous
- more capering
- more jesting
- more punning
- more wisecracking
- most capering
- most jesting
- most punning
- most sportive
- most wisecracking
- pulling leg
- pulling one leg
- pulling ones leg
• farcical
- more derisory
- most derisory
• jocular/jocose/jocund
- most jocose
- most jocund
• jolly
- lots laughs
- more gladsome
- more larking
- most gladsome
- most larking
• laughable
- har har
- harhar
- more har har
- more har-har
- more harhar
- most har har
- most har-har
- most harhar
- screamest
- un usual
- un-usual
• witty
- epigrammatic
• zany
- hare-brained
n.
• badinage
- asteisms
• banter
- dissing
- gossip
• fooling
- bluffings
- clownishnesses
- frolickings
- making lights
- non sense
- non senses
- non-sense
- non-senses
- pre tense
- pre tenses
- pre-tense
- roughhousings
- rowdinesses
- skylarkings
- spoofings
- teasings
- triflings
Other relevant words:

• derision

ridicule

• jocular

facetious

• joking

Fooling

• Other relevant words (adjective):

• Other relevant words (noun):

What are the hypernyms for Joshing?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
bantering, jesting, joking, Chaffing, Kidding, jollying.

Usage examples for Joshing

Their slumber senses carried them back to New York and Billy was in the midst of escorting Umbashi in full war paint through the office of the New York Planet, followed by hordes of joshing reporters and inquisitive office boys, who wanted to know whether he'd match his dusky friend to fight Jim Jeffries, when he was awakened by Umbashi himself, who in a few words told him it was morning and time to get up and dress swiftly, as the King of the Flying Men wanted to see him and his young companion at once.

"The Boy Aviators in Africa"

Captain Wilbur Lawton

Though really, now, that wasn't joshing.

"At Good Old Siwash"

George Fitch

There was considerable good-natured joshing over their ability to sleep and Pat warned them that if they repeated the performance they would be taken out and dropped in a snow-bank.

"The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp"

Thornton W. Burgess

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