Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| agelastic | never laughing. |
| amusable | capable of being amused. |
| amuseable | capable of being amused. |
| amusive | having power to amuse. |
| anticise | to play antics. |
| anticize | (Browning) to play antics. |
| antick | (Obs.) an antic. |
| badinage | (Fr.) playful repartee, banter; (verb) to banter. |
| ballyrag | to overawe; to maltreat by jeering at or playing practical jokes on. |
| banter | to exchange mildly teasing remarks. |
| banterer | one who banters or rallies. |
| banteringly | (Adv.) BANTERING. |
| baur | (Scots) a joke, amusing incident. |
| bawr | (Scots) a joke, amusing incident. |
| beclown | to cause to appear ridiculous. |
| bemock | (Arch.) to mock. |
| bourd | (Obs.) a jest, fun; (verb) to jest. |
| campily | (Adv.) CAMPY, comically exaggerated. |
| campy | comically exaggerated. |
| chaff | husks from corn that has been threshed or winnowed (verb) to tease |
| chaffingly | (Adv.) CHAFFING, teasing. |
| chiack | (Aust. sl.) to tease, deride. |
| chyack | (Aust. sl.) to tease, deride. |
| clownery | clownishness. |
| comical | amusing. |
| comicality | the quality of being comical. |
| comically | (Adv.) COMICAL, funny. |
| daff | a daffodil; (verb, arch.) to play the fool. |
| deride | to ridicule. |
| derider | one who derides. |
| deridingly | (Adv.) DERIDING. |
| derisible | worthy of derision. |
| derision | the act of deriding. |
| derisive | expressing derision. |
| derisively | (Adv.) DERISIVE, expressing derision. |
| derisiveness | the state of being derisive. |
| derisory | worthy of derision. |
| dicacity | (Arch.) raillery, banter. |
| dido | an antic, caper. |
| dorr | (Obs.) to mock, scoff. |
| droll | quaint (verb) to practice drollery, to jest |
| drollery | drollness. |
| drolly | (Adv.) DROLL, quaintly jesting. |
| facete | (Arch.) facetious. |
| facetely | (Adv.) FACETE, facetious. |
| farce | a comedy of extravagant humour, buffoonery, and improbability; (verb) to fill out with witty material. |
| flippancy | the state of being flippant. |
| flouter | one who flouts; a mocker. |
| fredaine | (Fr.) an escapade or prank. |
| frolicsome | given to pranks; sportive. |
| frolicsomely | (Adv.) FROLICSOME, given to pranks; sportive. |
| funnily | (Adv.) FUNNY, amusing. |
| funny | amusing (noun) a joke; the comic section of a newspaper |
| funster | a prankster; a person who causes merriment. |
| gaggery | the practice of telling jokes. |
| geare | (Spenser) to jeer. |
| gibe | to scoff, mock. |
| giber | one who gibes. |
| gibingly | (Adv.) GIBING, mocking. |
| gleek | an old card game; (verb, obs.) to joke or jest, to gibe. |
| guy | (Coll.) a person; (verb) to make fun of. |
| halfseriously | in a partially joking way. |
| hazer | one who hazes, a tease. |
| hilarious | very amusing. |
| hilariously | (Adv.) HILARIOUS, very amusing. |
| horseplay | rough, boisterous play. |
| humor | (US) humour; (verb) to humour. |
| humorful | humorous. |
| humorous | funny; witty. |
| humorously | (Adv.) HUMOROUS, funny. |
| huntiegowk | (Scots) a fools' errand, appropriate to the first of April; (verb) to go on a fool's errand. |
| inficete | not facetious; rudely jesting. |
| irrision | the act of laughing at another. |
| irrisory | mocking, derisive. |
| jape | to play a joke. |
| japer | one who japes. |
| japery | jesting, buffoonery. |
| japingly | (Adv.) JAPING, joking. |
| jeer | to mock. |
| jeerer | one who jeers. |
| jeeringly | (Adv.) JEERING, mocking. |
| jest | a joke; (verb) to joke. |
| jestee | the object of a jest. |
| jestful | given to jesting; full of jokes. |
| jesting | the act of one who jests. |
| jestingly | (Adv.) JESTING. |
| jiber | one who jibes. |
| jibingly | (Adv.) JIBING, mocking. |
| jocose | merry; characterized by joking > JOCOSER, JOCOSEST. |
| jocosely | (Adv.) JOCOSE, merry; characterized by joking. |
| jocular | given to joking. |
| jocularly | (Adv.) JOCULAR, given to joking. |
| joke | an amusing quip or story; (verb) to say something amusing |
| joker | one that jokes. |
| jokesome | full of jokes. |
| jokester | one who tells jokes. |
| jokey | full of jokes. |
| jokily | (Adv.) JOKY, full of jokes. |
| jokiness | humour. |
| jokingly | (Adv.) JOKING, in jest. |
| joky | full of jokes. |
| jollily | (Adv.) JOLLY, mirthful. |
| jolly | mirthful (verb) to make fun of; to put or keep in a good humour |
| josh | to tease. |
| josher | one who joshes. |
| joshingly | (Adv.) JOSHING, teasing. |
| kidder | a person who kids another, a teaser. |
| kiddingly | (Adv.) KIDDING, joking. |
| larkiness | playfulness. |
| larkish | given to larking. |
| larkishness | the state of being larkish. |
| larksome | given to larking. |
| larky | given to larking. |
| laughline | a funny line in a dialogue. |
| laughsome | (Arch.) exciting laughter; inclined to laugh. |
| laughworthy | worthy of being laughed at. |
| ludicrous | ridiculous. |
| mag | to tease; to steal. |
| michael | as in take the michael, to make fun of. |
| mirthfulness | the state of being mirthful. |
| mock | to ridicule. |
| mockable | such as can be mocked. |
| mockage | (Obs.) mockery. |
| mocker | one that mocks; (verb) to clothe. |
| mockery | the act of mocking. |
| mockingly | (Adv.) MOCKING, derisive. |
| monkeyshine | a monkeyish trick. |
| niftily | (Adv.) NIFTY, apt, agile. |
| nifty | apt, agile (noun) a joke, a witty remark or story |
| nugae | (Lat.) trifles; jests. |
| outjest | to surpass in jesting. |
| outlaugh | to surpass or outdo in laughing. |
| pawk | (Scots) a trick. |
| pawkily | (Adv.) PAWKY, drily or slily humorous. |
| pawkiness | being pawky, drily or slily humorous. |
| pawky | (Scots) drily or slily humorous. |
| persiflage | (Fr.) frivolous, bantering talk. |
| persifleur | (Fr.) one who indulges in persiflage. |
| picong | (Caribbean) teasing or satirical banter. |
| pliskie | (Scots) tricky, mischievous (noun) a practical joke; a trick |
| plisky | (Scots) a practical joke; a trick. |
| prankful | full of pranks. |
| prankish | full of pranks; frolicsome. |
| prankishly | (Adv.) PRANKISH, full of pranks. |
| pranksome | full of pranks. |
| prankster | one who plays pranks. |
| pranky | full of pranks. |
| quip | a witty remark (verb) to make witty remarks |
| quippish | given to making quips. |
| quippy | full of quips. |
| raillery | good-natured ridicule, banter. |
| reik | (Obs.) a prank. |
| repartee | a quick, witty reply or conversation; (verb) to retort with ready wit. |
| riancy | the state of being riant, laughing. |
| riant | mirthful, gay. |
| riantly | (Adv.) RIANT, mirthful, gay. |
| ribber | one that ribs. |
| riddler | one who poses riddles. |
| risibility | the quality of being risible. |
| risible | provoking laughter (noun) something that provokes laughter |
| risibly | (Adv.) RISIBLE, provoking laughter. |
| sardonic | marked by scorn, mockery, and cynicism. |
| sardonical | bitterly or evilly humorous; grimly mocking. |
| sarkily | (Adv.) SARKY, sarcastic. |
| sarkiness | the quality of being sarky. |
| sarky | (Coll.) sarcastic. |
| satirisable | capable of being satirised. |
| satirise | to subject to satire. |
| satirizable | capable of being satirized. |
| satirize | to subject to satire. |
| scoff | to express rude doubt or derision. |
| scoffer | one who scoffs. |
| scoffingly | (Adv.) SCOFFING. |
| scurril | (Arch.) like or worthy of a vulgar buffoon; indecently opprobrious or jocular. |
| scurrile | (Arch.) like or worthy of a vulgar buffoon; indecently opprobrious or jocular. |
| sendup | a satirical imitation. |
| shenanigan | a deceitful trick or mischievous act. |
| skit | a short dramatic scene. |
| spoofy | humorously satiric. |
| squib | a lampoon; (verb) to aim squibs at, to lampoon. |
| tagline | the funny line of a joke. |
| taunt | a wounding jibe; (verb) to challenge or reproach sarcastically. |
| taunter | one who taunts. |
| tauntingly | (Adv.) TAUNTING. |
| tease | to make fun of; to draw out. |
| teaser | one who teases. |
| teasingly | (Adv.) TEASING, making fun of. |
| teaze | (Obs.) to tease. |
| throwaway | a line, or a joke, that an actor purposely delivers casually or without emphasis. |
| tomfool | a great fool, a buffoon; (verb) to play the fool. |
| waggery | waggish behaviour, drollery. |
| waggish | drolly humorous. |
| waggishly | (Adv.) WAGGISH, drolly humorous. |
| waggishness | the state of being waggish. |
| wagsome | waggish. |
| whifflery | levity; trifling. |
| whimmy | full of whims; whimsical. |
| whimsily | (Adv.) WHIMSY, full of whims. |
| whimsy | delicately fanciful behaviour; gentle fantasy (adj.) full of whims |
| wisecrack | a pungent comment; (verb) to make a wisecrack. |
| wisecracker | one who wisecracks. |
| witticism | a witty remark. |
| wittiness | the quality of being witty. |
| witwanton | to engage in irreverent wit. |