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kidding on

kidding on is the present participle and gerund of kid on.

Meaning of kid on

Verb

kid on (third-person singular simple present kids on, present participle kidding on, simple past and past participle kidded on)

  1. (UK, colloquial, transitive) To trick or deceive deliberately; to play a prank on.
    • Are you kidding me on?
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) To entice or incite.
    • Boatman says she kidded him on to try a nice big cigar.1883, Judy, volumes 32-33, page 59

Questions about kidding on

What is kidding on the present participle and gerund of?
Kidding on is the present participle and gerund of kid on.

Words near kidding on in the dictionary

  1. kiddin'
  2. kiddiness
  3. kidding
  4. kidding around
  5. kidding aside
  6. kidding on
  7. kidding on the square
  8. kiddingly
  9. kiddings
  10. kiddiot
  11. kiddiots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kidding on (page history and authors); kid on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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