Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling…
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An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
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Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling…
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A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.
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The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearan…
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A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one sub…
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A lampoon or satirical writing.
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Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
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Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
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the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
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To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
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of Wit
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A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.
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The quality of being witty.
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A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouch…
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A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouch…
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One who caricatures.
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One who caricatures.
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A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouch…
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The act of imitating.
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Alt. of Impersonification
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