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Definition: Lampoon |
LampoonNoun1. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way. Verb1. Ridicule with satire; "The writer satirized the politician's proposal". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lampoon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
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Literature | Lampoon Sir Walter Scott says, "These personal and scandalous libels, carried to excess in the reign of Charles II., acquired the name of lampoons from the burden sung to them: Lampone, lampone, camerada lampone'- Guzzler, guzzler, my fellow guzzler." (French, lamper, to guzzle.) Sir Walter obtained his information from Trevoux. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: LampoonSynonyms: burlesque (n), charade (n), mockery (n), parody (n), pasquinade (n), put-on (n), sendup (n), spoof (n), takeoff (n), travesty (n), satirise (v), satirize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Detraction | Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back. |
Personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse; roorback. | |
Personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse; roorback. | |
Disapprobation | Scoff at, point at; twit, taunt; (disrespect); sneer at; (despise); satirize, lampoon; defame; (detract); depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious; Adjective: pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about. |
Imitation | Paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature. |
Mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act; (drama); represent; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque. | |
Misrepresentation | Noun: misrepresentation, distortion, caricatura, exaggeration; daubing; Verb: bad likeness, daub, sign painting; scratch, caricature; anamorphosis; burlesque, falsification, misstatement; parody, lampoon, take-off, travesty. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lampoon |
| English words defined with "lampoon": Iambize ♦ Lampooned, Lampooning, Lampoonry ♦ Pasquin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lampoon" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (lampoon). |
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Movie/TV Titles | National Lampoon TV (2003) | |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history. (reference) |
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| "Lampoon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Lampoon" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 26.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "lampoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkruaj pamflete (pamphleteer), satirë (satire, squib), pamflet (pamphlet, tract). (various references) | |
Arabic | هجاء (satire, spelling), هجا (satirize), سخرية (burlesque, derision, fling, gibe, humor, humour, irony, jeer, laughter, mockery, persiflage, quip, ridicule, rub, sarcasm, scoff, scorn, shy, snap, sneer, spoof, taunt, tee-hee, tehee, twit, wit), سخر (befool, chip, debunk, deride, fleer, guy, jape, jeer, kid, laugh at, make a game of, make fun of, mimic, mock, monkey, override, persiflage, pillory, poke fun, pooh pooh, quip, quiz, rally, rib, ridicule, satirize, scoff, send up, smile, snap, sneer, snigger, taunt, tee-hee, twit). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | осмивам (deride, mock, ridicule, satirize, scoff, sneer, take off, twit), пасквил (squib), памфлет (booklet, pamphlet), пиша памфлет. (various references) | |
Czech | zesmìšnit hanopisem, hanopis (libel). (various references) | |
Danish | smædeskrift (libel). (various references) | |
Dutch | smaadschrift (libel), schotschrift (pamphlet), pamflet (pamphlet). (various references) | |
Farsi | هجوکردن (Satirize), هجو (Libel), کنایه (Allegory, Allusion, Dig, Innuendo, Jest, Metaphor, Quibble, Quip, Squib). (various references) | |
Finnish | pilkkaruno, häväistyskirjoitus (libel). (various references) | |
French | libelle, tourner en dérision, satire, ridiculiser, pamphlet. (various references) | |
German | schmähschrift (libel), pamphlet (pamphlet). (various references) | |
Greek | σάτιρα (squib). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחבר סאטיר" על, כתב פלסתר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kigúnyol (deride, fleer, jeer, joke, ridicule, satirize, taunt, to deride, to flout, to gibe, to jibe, to pan, to rally, to razz, to ridicule, to scorch, to scorn, to twit), gúnyirat (libel, Pasquinade, satire, squib). (various references) | |
Italian | libello satirico, libello (libel), scrivere una satira, satira (Pasquinade, satire, skit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 落首 (satirical poem), 諷刺 (innuendo, irony, sarcasm, satire). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふうし (appearance, Confucius, demeanor, innuendo, irony, sarcasm, satire, term of address for a teacher, wind god), らくしゅ (receive, satirical poem). (various references) | |
Manx | lampooney, lampoon. (various references) | |
Norwegian | smedeskrift. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampoonlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | libelo (libel, pamphlet), satirizar (lash, satirize), sátira (irony, satire, skit, squib), ridicularizar (banter, belabor, belabour, bosh, burlesque, deride, guy, lambaste, laugh, make an ass of, mock, quiz, ridicule, scout), poema satírico, pasquinada (pasquinade, skit), pasquim (libel, pasquinade, squib). (various references) | |
Romanian | scrie satire împotriva, scrie pamflete (pamphleteer), satirã rãutãcioasã, pamflet (libel, pamphlet, pasquinade, squib, tract), foileton (column, feuilleton, serial). (various references) | |
Russian | злая сатира, пасквиль (pasquinade), памфлет;сатира, писать пасквили. (various references) | |
Scottish | aoir (a satire, satire, sheet or bolt-rope of a sail). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | satira (satire, spoof), ismejavati satirom. (various references) | |
Spanish | lo de sátira, libelo (libel), vejamen (obloquy), satirizar (satirize, send up), sátira (satire, send up, takeoff), pasquín (pasquinade), hacer satirizar, cosa sátira. (various references) | |
Swedish | smädeskrift (libel, pasquinade), skriva pamflett mot, pamflett (pamphlet, tract), nidskrift. (various references) | |
Turkish | yergi (satire, squib), taşlama yazmak, taşlama (burlesque, epigram, satire, squib, stoning), hicvetmek (epigrammatize, satirize, travesty), hiciv (diatribe, irony, pamphlet, satire, squib, travesty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зла сатира, памфлет (pamphlet), писати памфлети. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | b i văn đả kích. (various references) | |
Welsh | goganu (defame, satirize), dychanu (revile, stirize), dychan (satire). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cantilenis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lampoon": lampooned, lampooner, lampooneries, lampooners, lampoonery, lampooning, lampoons. (additional references) | |
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"Lampoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ampoon, Illampu, Lampo, Lampon, lampong, lampoo, lampton, lampung, lapon, Lomponda, Tampopo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lampoon" (pronounced lampuw"n) |
| 3 | -p uw" n | harpoon, poon, spoon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-n-o-o-p" | |
-2 letters: moola, nopal. | |
-3 letters: lamp, loam, loan, loom, loon, loop, mano, moan, mola, mono, mool, moon, nolo, noma, opal, palm, plan, polo, pool, poon. | |
-4 letters: alp, amp, lam, lap, loo, lop, man, map, moa, mol, mon, moo, mop, nam, nap, nom, noo, pal, pam, pan, pol, pom. | |
-5 letters: al, am, an, la, lo, ma, mo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-n-o-o-p" | |
+1 letter: lampoons, palomino. | |
+2 letters: lampooned, lampooner, monoplane, palominos. | |
+3 letters: lampooners, lampoonery, lampooning, monoplanes, monopodial, nonoptimal, pheromonal, polynomial, pronominal, protonemal. | |
+4 letters: campanology, commonplace, compilation, malposition, melanophore, nontemporal, policewoman, polynomials, prolegomena, promotional, scopolamine, toponymical. | |
+5 letters: anemophilous, antimonopoly, commonplaces, compellation, compilations, complexation, complexional, complication, componential, compoundable, contemplator, cosmopolitan, lampooneries, malpositions, melanophores, metallophone, metropolitan, monadelphous, monopodially, noncompliant, nontemporals, pneumatology, pneumococcal, proclamation, promulgation, pronominally, prothalamion, protonematal, scopolamines, synaptosomal. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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