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单词 caricature
释义

caricaturen.

/ˈkarɪkəˌtjʊə/
Etymology: < French caricature, < Italian caricatura, which it has superseded in English. The stress was, and is often still, on u, especially in the verb and derivatives caricaturing, etc.
1.
a. In Art. Grotesque or ludicrous representation of persons or things by exaggeration of their most characteristic and striking features.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > grotesque
antic1532
caricaturaa1682
caricaturing1758
caricature1827
1827 T. B. Macaulay Machiavelli in Ess. (1851) I. 50 The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §13. 4 A thorough destruction of beauty and regularity by exaggerated characterizing is caricature.
1865 Wright (title) History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art.
b. transferred of literary description, etc.
ΚΠ
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. 1st Ser. i. 5 Stories..which..illustrate, if only by caricature, some real feature in his character.
2.
a. A portrait or other artistic representation, in which the characteristic features of the original are exaggerated with ludicrous effect.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > grotesque
grotesque1643
caricatura1712
niddy-noddy1722
caricature1748
1748 H. Walpole Let. 25 July in Corr. (1941) IX. 64 They look like caricatures done to expose them.
1788 Storer in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1861) II. 207 A pleasant caricature of Lady Archer is lately come out.
1826 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 88/1 You may draw caricatures of your intimate friends.
1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxviii. 128 His marked features stood out so strongly that it made his face seem almost like a caricature of himself.
b. transferred of literary or ideal representation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [noun] > by caricature
caricatura1732
caricature1756
travestissement1824
travestiment1832
caricaturing1859
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > parody or burlesque
parody1607
burlesque1667
travestya1668
caricatura1732
caricature1756
skit1820
take-off1845
1756 Connoisseur No. 114 Their ideal caricatures have perhaps often represented me lodged at least three stories from the ground.
1841–44 R. W. Emerson Nominalist & Realist in Wks. (1906) I. 254 If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are..censuring your own caricature of him.
1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 245 An early Puritan comes down to us as a distorted caricature, known only as misrepresented in the next century by profligate wits and unscrupulous enemies.
3. An exaggerated or debased likeness, imitation, or copy, naturally or unintentionally ludicrous.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > caricature or pastiching > caricature or pastiche
caricatura1752
caricature1767
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation > an act or instance of
parody1607
caricatura1752
burlesque1753
caricature1767
take-off1845
send-up1958
piss-take1975
1767 Sir T. Meredith in Burke's Corr. (1844) I. 129 You are a caricature of St. Thomas, not to believe, till you saw, what I could do in an election.
1827 W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost (1855) 222 Where they were served with a caricature of French cookery.
1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) ix. 251 The monkey, that caricature of our species.
4. attributive.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adjective] > grotesque
caricaturaa1682
caricature1839
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. vii. 163 A caricature-likeness of the common swallow.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xl. 365 A rough caricature drawing by one of the men.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

caricaturev.

(see caricature n.)
Etymology: < caricature n. Compare French caricaturer.
a. transitive. To represent or portray in caricature; to make a grotesque likeness of.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (transitive)] > grotesquely
caricature1760
1760 G. Lyttelton Dialogues of Dead iv He could draw an ill face, or caricature a good one, with a masterly hand.
1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. iv. 79 In revenge for this epistle, Hogarth caricaturaed [1782 caricatured] Churchill under the form of a canonical bear.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. xxiv. 411 The appointed fate of the Renaissance architects,—to caricature whatever they imitated.
b. transferred and figurative. To burlesque.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > misrepresent [verb (transitive)] > by caricature
travesty1667
travesteere1672
caricature1749
parody1801
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > ridicule or mock by specific means [verb (transitive)] > ridicule or mock by imitation
mocka1616
buffoon1638
mimic1671
burlesque1676
parody1733
caricature1749
to take off1750
travesty1825
grotesque1875
cartoon1884
spoof1927
to send up1931
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas 431 It would be caricaturing the peerage to confer it on me.
1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. (1873) iv. vii. 307 The Faith once given to the saints is grievously caricatured.

Derivatives

Hence (from the noun and verb) (For pronunciation see the noun.)
caricaˈturable adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [adjective] > mockingly imitative > ridiculed by imitation > able to be
parodiable1872
caricaturable1886
1886 Sat. Rev. 31 July 170 A grotesque and caricaturable ugliness.
caricatured adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [adjective] > by caricature
travest1656
travesty1664
travestied1677
caricatured1813
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [adjective] > mockingly imitative > ridiculed by imitation
travesty1664
travestied1677
caricatured1813
spoofed1958
1813 Examiner 5 Apr. 223/1 Those caricatured rogues which give eclat to celebrated plays.
caricaturely adv. Obsolete
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [adverb] > in mockingly imitative manner
caricaturely1793
burlesquely1817
parodistically1840
1793 C. Macklin Love a la Mode (authorized ed.) i. 10 His manner..has something so caricaturely risible in it.
caricaturer n. Obsolete (= caricaturist n.).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > artist > caricaturist
caricaturer1758
caricaturist1798
distortionist1864
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation > one who
burlesquer1657
caricaturer1758
caricaturist1798
spoofer1914
piss-taker1976
society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > humorous writer > of parody or burlesque
burlesquer1657
parodist1749
caricaturer1758
caricaturist1798
1758 Monthly Rev. 19 319 The most eminent Caracaturers of these times.
caricaturing n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > grotesque
antic1532
caricaturaa1682
caricaturing1758
caricature1827
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [noun] > by caricature
caricatura1732
caricature1756
travestissement1824
travestiment1832
caricaturing1859
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation
mock1646
travestya1668
burlesquing1677
parody1730
burlesque1753
taking off1755
ludicrism1830
masquerade1847
caricaturing1859
charade1871
spoofing1920
piss-taking1967
1758 Monthly Rev. 19 319 All the humourous effects of the fashionable manner of Caracaturing.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. xiv. 103 With beer-drinking, pipe-smoking, song-roaring, and infinite caricaturing of woe.
caricaturish adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > parodic or burlesque
doggerel?1550
burlesquea1700
parodiousa1704
parodical1774
parodial1807
caricaturish1819
parodic1828
parodistic1845
1819 Blackwood's Mag. 5 401 Either that..they are rude or weak, caricaturish or insufficient.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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