lampoon
/læmˈpuːn/
lampoon noun: a written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.
Noun
lampoon (plural lampoons)
- A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.
- To say truth, Ma'am, 'tis very vulgar to Print and as my little Productions are mostly Satires and Lampoons I find they circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the Friends of the Parties—1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i
- "Dangerous things, sir—dangerous things!" exclaimed Mr. Lintot, drawing a deep breath of air from the open window: "do you know, sir, Curl published a lampoon on Lord Hervey the other day, who said that he would have horsewhipped him if he could have found his way into the city...1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Alteration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 22
Verb
lampoon (third-person singular simple present lampoons, present participle lampooning, simple past and past participle lampooned)
- To satirize or poke fun at.
- The original phrase was frequently lampooned in subsequent years, becoming strong enough in popular culture that the variations in place of ‘drugs’ probably didn’t take long to appear at all.2009 June 24, “this is your brain on X”, in The Snowclones Database
- Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule. Then Harris closed the trap with a line in her convention speech: “Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences … of putting Donald Trump back in the White House...2024 August 26, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy”, in CNN
- Synonyms:
- diss, trash talk, jibe, kid, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel
lampoon meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
lampoon in Urdu
- lampoon, satire
- ہجو hajv
lampoon in Malayalam
- mock, satirize, ridicule
- പരസ്യമായി ആക്ഷേപിക്കുക, ആക്ഷേപഹാസ്യകൃതി രചിക്കുക, പരിഹസിച്ചെഴുതി നിന്ദിക്കുക, ആക്ഷേപിക്കുക, അപഹസിക്കുക, കളിയാക്കുക
- skit, satire, burlesque
- പരിഹാസലേഖനം, നിന്ദാലേഖനം, നിന്ദാകാവ്യം, നീചഭർത്സനം, പരിഹാസകൃതി, ഹാസ്യാനുകരണം
lampoon in Kannada
- ನಿಂದಾ ಲೇಖನ, ಕಟು ಟೀಕೆಯ ಬರಹ, ಲೇವಡಿಯ ಲೇಖನ, ವಿಡಂಬನ ಲೇಖನ, ಕಟಕಿ ಬರಹ, ದಾಳಿಬರಹ
Examples of lampoon in a sentence
- Bart Simpson's stock phrase "I didn't do it" was once lampooned on the show itself.
- Isis, a student publication, lampooned Australians as good-for-nothings who badly needed education.
- He was a master of the lampoon, a wagger-pagger-bagger need never be a waste paper basket again.
Synonyms of lampoon
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Forms of lampoon
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lampoons |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lampoons |
| present participle | lampooning |
| past participle | lampooned |
| past | lampooned |
Origin of lampoon
From French lampon (“satire, mockery, ridicule”), built on French lampons (“let us drink — a popular refrain for scurrilous songs”), from lamper (“to quaff, to swig”). : Littré quotes a satirical song mocking King Jacques II Stuart, fleeing Dublin, in 1691, and returning to France under the escort of Lauzun: :: Prenez soin de ma couronne, J'aurai soin de ma personne ; ("Take care of my crown, I will take care of my person") Lampons ! lampons !
Words formed from lampoon
Questions about lampoon
- What does lampoon mean?
- Lampoon means a written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.
- What is lampoon in Urdu?
- Lampoon in Urdu is ہجو (hajv). See Lampoon meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is lampoon?
- Lampoon can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce lampoon?
- Lampoon is pronounced /læmˈpuːn/.
- What is the plural of lampoon?
- The plural of lampoon is lampoons.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lampoon (page history and authors); ہجو (Urdu) (page history and authors); lampoon (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lampoon (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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