| 单词 | to poke fun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto poke (one's) fun (at) c. transitive. to poke (one's) fun (at): to tease, ridicule, make fun of, esp. in a sly or indirect manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] tauntc1530 railly1668 rally1672 banter1677 smoke1699 to get, take, or have a rise out of1703 joke1748 to run a rig1764 badinage1778 queer1778 quiz1787 to poke (one's) fun (at)1795 gammon1801 chaff1826 to run on ——1830 rig1841 trail1847 josh1852 jolly1874 chip1898 barrack1901 horse1901 jazz1927 to take the mike out ofa1935 to take the piss (out of)1945 to take the mickey (out of)1948 1795 J. Swanwick Rub from Snub 57 I fancied some waggith ‘wight’ had been poking his fun at you. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan 108 He's ony pokin' fun at us, all the time, I know! 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 145 The American..in a dry way began to ‘poke his fun’ at the unfortunate traveller. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xiv. 265 The first thing you do is to poke fun at me out of your wretched classics! 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xx. 340 There comes in a party of these high-rollers that are always hunting up new places to eat in and poke fun at. 1964 L. Woolf Beginning Again II. 115 Hundreds of people have poked their fun at the Webbs and they were so absurd that you could not caricature them for they were always caricaturing themselves. 2004 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 10 Jan. k6 Trinidad birthed the musical art form calypso, which pokes fun at social, political and humorous events. < as lemmas |
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