Spoof

Definition: Spoof

Spoof

Noun

1. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way.

Verb

1. Make a spoof of; make fun of.

2. Make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spoof" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Spoof

Deception

Misrepresentation; (falsehood); bluff; straw-bail, straw bid; spoof.

Impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm upon, foist upon; snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko, four flush, gum, spoof, stuff (a ballot box).

Crosswords: Spoof

Spoof! (1915)

Spoof for Oof (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 2-T's Spoof Video (Butt-Ugly Martians Storybook, 3) (reference)

• Film Classics Reclassified: A Shocking Spoof of Cinema (reference)

• Mel Brooks and the Spoof Movie (reference)

• Tales of Trickery from the Land of Spoof (reference)

• The Blade & the Passion: A Spoof on Romance Novels [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Deputy Dawg:National Spoof Day (reference)

• You Only Die Once (A James Bond Spoof) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 7: 2001, A Spoof Odyssey [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ending with "spoof": semi-spoof.

Albanian

shaka (badinage, crack, facetiae, gag, hoax, jape, jest, jocosity, jocularity, joke, lark, persiflage, play, pleasantry, prank, quiz, trick, waggery), tallje (banter, derision, dig, fleer, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jesting, jibe, joke, mock, mockery, pleasantry, quiz, ridicule, satire, scoff, sneer, snook, Snoot, sport, taunt, twit), i rremë (affected, delusive, delusory, fallible, false, fictitious, fictive, hollow, illusive, lying, mendacious, meretricious, mock, out of whole cloth, pasteboard, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plastic, pseudo, simulated, spurious, supposititious, untruthful). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محاكاة تهكمية ساخرة (parody), ‏محاكاة ساخرة (mockery, travesty), ‏حكى نكات, ‏حاكى بسخرية (mimic, mock), ‏سخرية (burlesque, derision, fling, gibe, humor, humour, irony, jeer, lampoon, laughter, mockery, persiflage, quip, ridicule, rub, sarcasm, scoff, scorn, shy, snap, sneer, taunt, tee-hee, tehee, twit, wit), ‏خداع (artifice, beguilement, bluff, bluffing, cheat, cheating, chicanery, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defraudation, delusion, double dealing, dupery, duplicity, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, humbuggery, imposture, knavery, mystification, roguery, swindle, swindling, trickery, victimization, wile). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мятам (cast, drive, fling, launch, pitch, put on, sell, send, shaft, shoot, sling, slip over, swing, throw, toss, tumble about), майтапя (put on), майтап (kidding, leg pull), лъжлив (bogus, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, double, double-tongued, elusory, false, lying, mendacious, misleading, mock, perjurious, phantasmagoric, pretended, quack, shifty, tinsel, truthless, untrue, untruthful, vain), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist), измислен (fabled, fabulous, fancy, fictional, fictitious, made up, mythical, phantasmagoric, phoney, phony). (various references)

Farsi 

مسخره (Clown, Dult, Fool, Hobbyhorse, Irony, Jeer, Mockery, Mower, Rustic, Sikt, Witticism, Zany), کلاهبرداری , حقه بازی کردن (Trick), دست انداختن (Banter, Fool, Game, Gibe, Hoax, Kid, Lark, Ridicule). (various references)

French

satire, raconter des blagues, parodier, parodie, canular, blague. (various references)

German

scherz (frolic, fun, gag, hoax, jest, joke, kidding, leg pull, play, pleasantry, tomfoolery, yoke), verballhornt, ulk (fun, josh, practical joke, trick), parodiert, parodieren (burlesque, parody, take off), parodie (burlesque, parody, take off, takeoff), aprilscherz (april fool hoax, april fool's trick). (various references)

Greek 

κοροϊδεύω (dupe, fool, guy, kid, mock, razz, ridicule, string along, take the mickey out of), κοροϊδία (hoax, jeer, jiggery pokery, kidding, mockery, raillery), ξεγελώ (bamboozle, bite, deceive, delude, diddle, euchre, fake out, have on, hocus, hoodwink, inveigle, juggle, outsmart, outwit, trick), πείραγμα (quip, rally, vexing), απάτη (beguilement, bilk, cheat, circumvention, con, deceit, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, scam, sham, swindle, swindling, trick, trickery), απατώ (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, bluff, cheat, chisel, circumvent, con, deceive, dupe, fool, gouge, gyp, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, rook, sham, shave, shortchange, swindle, trick). (various references)

Hebrew 

למתוח (kid, pull, sprain, strain, stretch, tauten), ל�"תל ב- (jest, joke, lark, make a game of, mock at, skit), פרו�"י�" (parody, skit, travesty). (various references)

Hungarian

átejtés (burn, gimmick, gyp, letdown, scam). (various references)

Italian

parodia (burlesque, parody, send up, travesty), imbrogliare (cheat, cozen, diddle, do, embroil, entangle, entrap, fob, fool, garble, get confused, get entangled, get tangled, hocus, mix up, mystify, overreach, rook, sell, swindle, tangle, trick), fregare (cheat, pinch, rip off, rub, rubbing, short-change, sneak, trick), fasullo (counterfeit, false, incorrect, phoney, unsounded, wrong), falso (apocryphal, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, erroneous, faithless, fake, fallacious, false, falsehood, forgery, insincere, intrue, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, tin, wrong), beffa (banter, cheat, derisiveness, gibe, hoax, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, lark, mock, mockery, scoff). (various references)

Pig Latin

oofspay

Portuguese

mistificar (bamboozle, flimflam, green, gull, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, humbug, mystify, trick, wangle), mistificação (cantrip, mystification, quiz), logro (bluff, bob, cantrip, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, cross, do, graft, hoax, imposition, leasing, mare's-nest, mystification, overreach, sham, swindle, take-in), lograr (bilk, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cod, cozen, deceive, diddle, dupe, fob, fool, fox, gammon, gouge, gyp, inveigle, jockey, let in, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, put it over, succeed, trick), intrujice (foolery, juggle, jugglery, swindle), intrujar (jockey, juggle, out-jockey, skin, trick), fraude (bilk, brogue, cheat, cross, deceit, deception, embezzlement, fraud, graft, guile, humbug, inveracity, ruse, sham, skulduggery, trickery, wile), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile), embuste (bubble, cantrip, fake, fancy dress ball, hoax, hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey, humbug, juggle, mystification, quiz, snare, swindle, take-in, trick, trickery, wile), diversão (dissipation, diversion, divertissement, entertainment, excursion, fun, gaiety, game, jamboree, jollity, merriment, merry-making, pastime, play, recreation, revel, sport, spree), burla (cantrip, chouse, mockery, mystification, sneer, swindle). (various references)

Russian 

выдуманный (fictional, made, made out of whole cloth), обман (bunco, bunko, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, cram, deceit, deception, dissimulation, do, double cross, double dealing, false pretence, false pretences, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudging, gag, gammon, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hanky-panky, have on, have-on, hokum, humbug, imposture, jugglery, leasing, leg pull, legerdemain, lie, lurk, overreach, skin-game, swindle, take in, take-in, trick, trickeries, trickery, wile), надувательство (cozenage, do, dupery, gyp, hocus pocus, legerdemain, skulduggery, skullduggery, swindle, trickery). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

satiričan (satiric, satirical), satira (lampoon, satire), humoreska. (various references)

Spanish

parodia (burlesque, mockery, parody, takeoff, travesty), paródico (parodic), mistificar (hoax, mystify), engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, befool, beguile, belie, betray, bilk, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, dupe, fob, fool, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, stay, swindle, take in, trick, while away), documento apócrifo, burlar (chaff, circumvent, deceive, deride, dish, escape, get by, hoax, hoodwink, jape, jest, live up, outflank, outsmart, outwit, taunt, trick), bromear (banter, daff, deride, fool, fool around, fun, jape, jest, jive, joke, kid on, play), apócrifo (apocryphal). (various references)

Swedish

spratt (Dido, hoax, lark, prank, trick), skoja (cheat, frolic, gyp, jape, jeer, jest, joke, kid, lark, rag, swindle), parodi (mockery, parody, send up, skit, takeoff, travesty). (various references)

Turkish

sazanlamak (cod, hoax), sazanlama (hoax, leg pull), makaraya alma, kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), kandırma (bait, deception, dissuasion, inducement, inveiglement, put on), kafeslemek (bamboozle, cage, coop, coop in, coop up, deceive, encage, rope in), kafesleme, kafa bulma (jape, leg pull, raillery, send up, wipe, wiper), işletmek (actuate, bamboozle, befool, cod, control, dupe, exploit, hoax, hornswoggle, keep, kid, manage, operate, ply, pull smb.'s leg, run, run the show, work), dolandırmak (bilk, bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do down, do in, double cross, flimflam, gammon, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, nobble, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, swindle, take in), dolandırma (defraudation, hustle and bustle, swindle, swindling), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, finagle, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize), aldatma (cheat, chicanery, deceit, deception, dupery, eyewash, have on, illusion, imposition, infidelity, inveiglement, mystification, shave). (various references)

Ukrainian

розігрувати (bam, bamboozle, hoax), розіграш (cantrip, leg pull, windy), пародія (burlesque, parody, travesty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lừa phỉnh (gammon), sự đánh lừa (bam, deceit, delusion, illusiveness, lurk, sell, sold). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spoof": spoofed, spoofer, spooferies, spoofers, spoofery, spoofing, spoofs, spoofy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spoof" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Espoo, Pooof, scoof, skof, sloff, sloof, sofo, soof, sopot, spef, spoa, spoff, spog, spoid, spoo, spood, spoofy, spooh, spooj, spoot, spoub, spoud, sppof, sproof. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: poofs.

-1 letter: fops, oops, poof.

-2 letters: fop, ops, sop.

-3 letters: of, op, os, so.

+1 letter: proofs, spoofs, spoofy.

+2 letters: spoofed, spoofer.

+3 letters: cowflops, disproof, foolscap, footpads, footstep, foretops, opsonify, pooftahs, poofters, postform, proofers, reproofs, rooftops, scoopful, spoofers, spoofery, spoofing, spoonful, sunproof.

+4 letters: airproofs, disproofs, fetoscope, fetoscopy, flophouse, flopovers, followups, foolscaps, footpaces, footpaths, footropes, footsteps, forespoke, fowlpoxes, postforms, professor, profounds, profusion, pussyfoot, rustproof, scoopfuls, scoopsful, skidproof, soporific, splayfoot, spoonfuls, spoonsful.