| No. | Term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Airy humor | Light, carefree joking tone. |
| 2. | Bantering | Trading playful remarks back and forth. |
| 3. | Being facetious | Using humor not meant seriously. |
| 4. | Being flippant | Too casual; not taking seriously. |
| 5. | Being glib | Smooth, shallow humor or talk. |
| 6. | Being playful | Acting in a lighthearted way. |
| 7. | Being tongue-in-cheek | Saying something ironically, not literally. |
| 8. | Breezy joking | Casual, lighthearted joking. |
| 9. | Buffooning | Acting like a clown for laughs. |
| 10. | Bullshitting | Talking nonsense, often humorously. |
| 11. | Busting chops | Teasing someone roughly but playfully. |
| 12. | Busting on someone | Teasing or mocking in fun. |
| 13. | Cackling around | Laughing and fooling about. |
| 14. | Carrying on | Acting up in a silly way. |
| 15. | Clowning | Acting silly to amuse others. |
| 16. | Clowning around | Fooling around in a silly way. |
| 17. | Comic exaggeration | Overstatement used to be funny. |
| 18. | Cracking wise | Making smart, funny remarks. |
| 19. | Cutting up | Acting silly; making people laugh. |
| 20. | Deadpanning | Delivering humor with a straight face. |
| 21. | Dicking around | Wasting time in a playful way. |
| 22. | Drollery | Dry, odd humor. |
| 23. | Dry humor | Deadpan, understated joking style. |
| 24. | Engaging in banter | Exchanging playful, teasing talk. |
| 25. | Exaggerating for effect | Overstating to be funny. |
| 26. | Fooling | Not being serious; playing around. |
| 27. | Fooling around | Acting playfully; not serious. |
| 28. | Frisking about | Moving playfully; romping. |
| 29. | Gagging | Doing or saying a comic bit. |
| 30. | Goofing | Acting silly for fun. |
| 31. | Goofing around | Messing about in a playful way. |
| 32. | Hamming it up | Overacting for comic effect. |
| 33. | Having a laugh | Doing something for amusement. |
| 34. | Horsing around | Rough, playful behavior; messing about. |
| 35. | Humoring | Treating lightly; playing along. |
| 36. | Ironizing | Speaking with irony, not literal intent. |
| 37. | Japing | Making jokes; teasing playfully. |
| 38. | Jeering playfully | Mocking in a lighthearted way. |
| 39. | Jesting | Speaking in jest; jokingly. |
| 40. | Joshing | Teasing or kidding someone. |
| 41. | Kidding | Not serious; teasing in fun. |
| 42. | Kidding around | Joking and playing about. |
| 43. | Kidding on | Teasing someone in fun. |
| 44. | Larking | Engaging in mischievous fun. |
| 45. | Larking about | Messing around for fun. |
| 46. | Laughing it off | Treating something as not serious. |
| 47. | Making a gag | Delivering a quick comic line. |
| 48. | Making a jest | Saying something humorously. |
| 49. | Making fun | Mocking or joking about something. |
| 50. | Making light of | Treating something as unimportant. |
| 51. | Making puns | Joking using wordplay. |
| 52. | Making wisecracks | Saying witty, sarcastic jokes. |
| 53. | Messing about | Fooling around; not serious. |
| 54. | Messing around | Playing around; wasting time. |
| 55. | Mocking in fun | Teasing without serious intent. |
| 56. | Mugging | Pulling comic faces or acting. |
| 57. | Needling | Teasing persistently, often playfully. |
| 58. | Playing it for laughs | Treating something as comedy. |
| 59. | Poking fun | Teasing lightly; making jokes. |
| 60. | Pranking | Playing a mischievous joke. |
| 61. | Pulling a fast one | Tricking someone as a joke. |
| 62. | Pulling a prank | Doing a mischievous joke. |
| 63. | Pulling legs | Teasing someone with a tall tale. |
| 64. | Pulling someone’s leg | Teasing by pretending something false. |
| 65. | Quipping | Making a short, witty remark. |
| 66. | Quizzing | Teasing by questioning playfully. |
| 67. | Ragging | Teasing someone in fun. |
| 68. | Razzing | Teasing or mocking playfully. |
| 69. | Ribbing | Good-natured teasing. |
| 70. | Roasting | Mocking humorously, often publicly. |
| 71. | Romping | Playing energetically and noisily. |
| 72. | Running a gag | Repeating a joke across moments. |
| 73. | Sarcasm | Mocking irony meant humorously. |
| 74. | Sassing | Talking back with cheeky humor. |
| 75. | Satirizing | Mocking to expose folly. |
| 76. | Scoffing lightly | Dismissing with mild mockery. |
| 77. | Sending up | Parodying something for humor. |
| 78. | Shit-talking | Insulting jokingly, often competitively. |
| 79. | Shooting the breeze | Chatting casually, often joking. |
| 80. | Showing levity | Acting with lightness and humor. |
| 81. | Silliness | Foolish, playful behavior. |
| 82. | Skylarking | Boisterous, playful mischief. |
| 83. | Slinging jokes | Telling jokes repeatedly. |
| 84. | Slipping in a pun | Adding wordplay for humor. |
| 85. | Smirking | Smiling as if amused or ironic. |
| 86. | Snarking | Making sharp, sarcastic comments. |
| 87. | Sparring verbally | Trading witty, teasing remarks. |
| 88. | Spoofing | Parodying for comic effect. |
| 89. | Storying | Spinning a tale playfully. |
| 90. | Taking the piss | Mocking or teasing playfully. |
| 91. | Teasing | Provoking playfully; not serious. |
| 92. | Telling tall tales | Inventing exaggerated stories for fun. |
| 93. | Tomfoolery | Silly, mischievous behavior. |
| 94. | Trading quips | Exchanging witty remarks. |
| 95. | Trifling | Treating matters as unimportant. |
| 96. | Trolling | Provoking others for amusement online. |
| 97. | Twitting | Teasing or taunting lightly. |
| 98. | Understating for humor | Downplaying to create a joke. |
| 99. | Waggishness | Playful, mischievous humor. |
| 100. | Winding up | Teasing to get a reaction. |
