Fun
Fun verb - To make jokes.
Usage example: just a couple of old friends funning with each other
Joke
Joke verb - To make jokes.
Usage example: he was known for his ability to joke about his lack of anything resembling a social life
Fun is a synonym for joke (North American) in jest topic. You can use "Fun" instead the word "Joke" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as laugh, kid, horseplay, clowning. informal substitute
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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And the joke where DT complains about Scootaloo being incomprehensible is very similar to the joke where Nina makes fun of Suzaku for having a stupid voice.
Source: Web Video / Ultra Fast Pony - At the end of the day, he makes fun of other people via soundboards, but it's mostly in good fun and he can often get a laugh out of the people on the receiving end of the joke.
Source: The Gadfly - There was a joke on Conan O'Brien making fun of the fact that Clint Eastwood spoke no Japanese despite producing the movie Letters from Iwo Jima.
Source: Fun with Foreign Languages
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