单词 | lampoon |
释义 | lampoonn. A virulent or scurrilous satire upon an individual. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > lampoon or satire bill1426 satire1509 squibc1525 pasquil1542 pasquinata1592 cockalane1596 pasquinado1600 Pasquin1611 lampoon1645 pasquinade1658 banter1695 jeu d'esprit1712 Dunciad1728 squiblet1820 squibling1884 satirette1894 spoof1958 1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 174 Here they still paste up their drolling lampoons and scurrilous papers. 1689 T. Shadwell Bury-Fair i. i I pepper'd the Court with libels and Lampoons. a1704 T. Brown To Lords in Council in Wks. (1707) I. i. 94 Should you order Tom Brown, To be whip'd through the Town, For scurvy Lampoon. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 5 On his master at Twyford he had already exercised his poetry in a lampoon. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vii. 153 This circumstance only appeared by two bitter lampoons in the works of Jonson. 1842 T. De Quincey Pagan Oracles in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 279/2 The rancorous lampoons of Gregory Nazianzen. 1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. i. ii. 145 Taking the lampoons of the time as documents of literal fidelity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lampoonv. transitive. To make the subject of a lampoon; to abuse or satirize virulently in writing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > express in written work or write about > satirize or lampoon billc1450 pistle1589 canvass1590 satirize1619 squib1631 pasquila1648 lampoona1657 pasquin1683 parodize1768 pasquinade1779 besquib1813 a1657 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 233 The noblest matrons of the isle lampoon. 1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer i. i. 7 Suppose we lampoon'd all the pretty Women in Town, and left her out? a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 143 Thwarted in the cabinet, baited in Parliament, and lampooned in public. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. vi. 125 He lampooned the French Revolution when it was hailed as the dawn of liberty by millions. 1878 G. F. Maclear Celts vii. 115 The bards..did not scruple to defame or lampoon any who annoyed them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1645v.a1657 |
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