"kid on the square" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Dates back to the early 20th century. Later popularized by Mose Allison in his 1983 song \"Kidding on the Square\" on the album Middle Class White Boy (described in the liner notes as \"joking with serious intent\") and later by Al Franken describing the negative reaction of Paul Wolfowitz to one of his jokes in the 2003 book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kids on the square",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kidding on the square",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kidded on the square",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kidded on the square",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "kid on the square"
      },
      "expansion": "kid on the square (third-person singular simple present kids on the square, present participle kidding on the square, simple past and past participle kidded on the square)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Alfred Damon Runyon, “The Defense of Strikerville”, in McClure's Magazine, volume 28, page 379",
          "text": "\"I'm kiddin' on the square,\" said Hanks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Dan Rather, Mickey Herskowitz, The Camera Never Blinks, page 66",
          "text": "So I always knew what Pierce meant, in a kidding-on-the-square kind of way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Stuart Ostrow, Present at the Creation, page 46",
          "text": "\"At least he likes historical characters,\" I kidded on the square. No one laughed so I went to work recruiting other directors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be joking, but at the same time really mean it."
      ],
      "id": "en-kid_on_the_square-en-verb-9FbqcFxf",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ha ha only serious"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Al Franken",
        "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them",
        "Mose Allison",
        "Paul Wolfowitz"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kid on the square"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Dates back to the early 20th century. Later popularized by Mose Allison in his 1983 song \"Kidding on the Square\" on the album Middle Class White Boy (described in the liner notes as \"joking with serious intent\") and later by Al Franken describing the negative reaction of Paul Wolfowitz to one of his jokes in the 2003 book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kids on the square",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kidding on the square",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kidded on the square",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kidded on the square",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "kid on the square"
      },
      "expansion": "kid on the square (third-person singular simple present kids on the square, present participle kidding on the square, simple past and past participle kidded on the square)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Alfred Damon Runyon, “The Defense of Strikerville”, in McClure's Magazine, volume 28, page 379",
          "text": "\"I'm kiddin' on the square,\" said Hanks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Dan Rather, Mickey Herskowitz, The Camera Never Blinks, page 66",
          "text": "So I always knew what Pierce meant, in a kidding-on-the-square kind of way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Stuart Ostrow, Present at the Creation, page 46",
          "text": "\"At least he likes historical characters,\" I kidded on the square. No one laughed so I went to work recruiting other directors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be joking, but at the same time really mean it."
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Al Franken",
        "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them",
        "Mose Allison",
        "Paul Wolfowitz"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ha ha only serious"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kid on the square"
}