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making fun of

making fun of is the present participle and gerund of make fun of.

Meaning of make fun of

Verb

make fun of (third-person singular simple present makes fun of, present participle making fun of, simple past and past participle made fun of)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To tease, ridicule or make jokes about, generally in a pejorative manner.
    • Please stop making fun of your sister and just help her!

Questions about making fun of

What is making fun of the present participle and gerund of?
Making fun of is the present participle and gerund of make fun of.

Words near making fun of in the dictionary

  1. making flexible
  2. making for
  3. making free with
  4. making friendly
  5. making friends
  6. making fun of
  7. making game of
  8. making garden
  9. making good
  10. making good on
  11. making good one's running

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Adapted from Wiktionary: making fun of (page history and authors); make fun of (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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