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▪ I. lampoon, n.|læmˈpuːn|
[a. F. lampon, recorded from 17th c.; the vb. † lamponner, to ridicule, is cited from Brantôme (died 1614).
The Fr. etymologists regard the n. as f. lampons ‘let us drink’, imperative of lamper (slang) to booze, guzzle.]
A virulent or scurrilous satire upon an individual.
1645Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 174 Here they still paste up their drolling lampoons and scurrilous papers. 1689Shadwell Bury F. i. i, I pepper'd the Court with libels and Lampoons. a1704T. Brown Pindar. Petit. Lds. Council Wks. 1730 I. 61 Should you order Tho. Brown, To be whipp'd thro' the town, For scurvy lampoon. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 3 On his master at Twyford he had already exercised his poetry in a lampoon. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. vii. 153 This circumstance only appeared by two bitter lampoons in the works of Jonson. 1842De Quincey Pagan Oracles Wks. 1858 VIII. 172 The rancorous lampoons of Gregory Nazianzen against his sovereign. 1872W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. i. ii. 145 Taking the lampoons of the time as documents of literal fidelity.
Comb.1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. vii. 54 Among the rest [of the ballads] there was published a very unlucky one, lampoon-wise..pretending to take the part of the papists against the preachers.
▪ II. lampoon, v.|læmˈpuːn|
[f. lampoon n.]
trans. To make the subject of a lampoon; to abuse or satirize virulently in writing.
a1657Lovelace Poems (1864) 233 The noblest matrons of the isle lampoon. 1706Farquhar Recruiting Officer i. i. Wks. 1892 II. 131 Suppose we lampooned all the pretty women in town, and left her out? 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 362 Thwarted in the cabinet, baited in parliament, and lampooned in public. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. I. vi. 125 He lampooned the French Revolution when it was hailed as the dawn of liberty by millions. 1878Maclear Celts vii. 115 The bards..did not scruple to defame or lampoon any who annoyed them. |