joking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of joke
2. (British, Ireland, US, colloquial, transitive)Kidding, trying to fool.

   “Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!”

noun

1. The act of telling or engaging in jokes.

   “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[…]”