A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.
An amusing story.
The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected.
Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.
To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.
Something foolish.
A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
An untrue statement.
A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
Nonsensical.
An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
To make nonsense of;
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
To joke around, to waste time