filking

Verb

filk (third-person singular simple present filks, present participle filking, simple past and past participle filked)

1. (intransitive) To perform filk music.
   • I could have filked all night1978, Sarah Elizabeth Miller, I Could Have Filked All Night, page 33
2. (intransitive) To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
3. (transitive) To write a parody of (a song).
   • 1997 (?: "July A.S. XXXI") Medieval Melodies for Filking
     However, the practice of filking, of taking an existing melody and providing new, usually topical and/or satirical, lyrics, is in fact the direct counterpart of the Medieval practice of writing contrafacta.

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