What's the difference between giggle and joke?

Giggle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.
  • (n.) A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
  • (2) "Well…" His delightful press secretary, Lena, starts giggling as her boss tries to unknot himself from this contradiction.
  • (3) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
  • (4) The only thing she wouldn't do was We Shall Overcome, too sacred to perform on a whim she tells me when I meet her later, besides which - and here she giggles - "we probably won't overcome.
  • (5) I remember standing by the side of the stage, thinking, "I'm about to follow the Spice Girls" and giggling to myself.
  • (6) He keeps trying to leave the interview and is giggling as he's pulled back.
  • (7) "He [Meyer] sat here giggling about his [Mosley's] shaved buttocks," said Davies.
  • (8) This was to have been a free-admission hit-and-giggle day before the night session but the weather forced the cancellation of John and Patrick McEnroe’s little joust with Michael Chang and Todd Martin (also wiping out the evening programme) so those who braved the elements got to see some proper tennis.
  • (9) He giggles, and says people are going to be sadly disappointed if they befriend him for his lavish spending.
  • (10) Griff is giggling so much he has to stand in the corner of the studio, hunched over in hysteria. '
  • (11) But then the cost of armed guards to accompany them isn't cheap," Aken'ova sighs, before telling the two giggling women the price for bottles of massage oil.
  • (12) His lordship is desperate to avoid joining them, but as the weeks pass his occasional giggles at the absurd scale of his task begin to seem faintly hysterical.
  • (13) No wonder Roger Burman, Winterhill's barrel-chested headteacher, was beaming on Thursday morning as he welcomed a line of nervous teenagers into the school hall, some of whom confessed they had been awake since 5am ("and I usually get up at 1pm", giggled Amy Jones as she loitered outside).
  • (14) Their encounter is a graphic and uninhibited coupling, but intimate and communicative, with the odd giggle, and each partner enjoying equal pleasure and control.
  • (15) A mysterious form of ill-fortune, it seems – possibly a "condition" but not needful of medicalisation, and certainly not of funding; just pity, maybe, or sometimes giggling, or a judicious kick in the arse.
  • (16) And with that, they both collapse into giggles, like a couple who already figured that out long ago.
  • (17) Bouchard, one of the rising stars of women’s tennis, had just won a match on Margaret Court Arena and complied, smiled and giggled – but looked as if she were taking part in someone else’s joke.
  • (18) It was as much as I could do to stop myself giggling as the bemused caller lost his thread and started fumbling for words.
  • (19) Between their inward groans and suppressed giggles, the friends recognised something of great value, a familiar form no other artist had yet nicked.
  • (20) They order room service while giggling in their dressing gowns.

Joke


Definition:

  • (n.) Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.
  • (n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport.
  • (v. t.) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade.
  • (v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
  • (3) Fringe 2009 also welcomes back Aussie standup Jim Jeffries , whose jokes include: "Women to me are like public toilets.
  • (4) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
  • (5) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
  • (6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (7) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
  • (8) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
  • (9) Quizzed by one journalist, Gabrielli joked that "the first 12 hours are the most dangerous".
  • (10) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
  • (11) Musk revealed his love for Kerbal Space Program in a Q&A in Reddit , joking (or maybe not?)
  • (12) One of the punters came up to me after and said that I seemed confident, but he’d spent the whole time wondering when I was going to tell a joke.
  • (13) In a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 comedy Alun Cochrane's Fun House , Cochrane joked of how he sleeps better in the living room.
  • (14) I’m just going to prepare myself for next year, for the Olympics and come out even stronger.” Questioned over Bolt’s joking accusation, Gatlin added: “I want my money back.
  • (15) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
  • (16) His art knows this and tries to deal with it by way of jokes and excess.
  • (17) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
  • (18) It would also be likely to lend scope to ill-conceived prosecutions jeopardising ordinary free speech rights, such as the notorious Twitter Joke Trial .
  • (19) This, Brown jokes, counts as good weather for Scotland.
  • (20) December 3, 2013 And fellow presenters took the opportunity for some jokes at his expense.