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lampooning

lampooning noun: a lampoon. Also the present participle and gerund of lampoon.

Noun

lampooning (plural lampoonings)

  1. A lampoon.
    • Also with Aylward that month, he went to the dinner of the Gridiron Club which brings together the great and the near-great of American politics for semi-annual lampoonings.1998, Jonathan Daniels, The Man of Independence, page 177

Also used as

lampooning is also the present participle and gerund of lampoon.

Forms of lampooning

plurallampoonings

Questions about lampooning

What does lampooning mean?
Lampooning means a lampoon.
What part of speech is lampooning?
Lampooning is a noun.
What is the plural of lampooning?
The plural of lampooning is lampoonings.

Words near lampooning in the dictionary

  1. lampooned
  2. lampooner
  3. lampooneries
  4. lampooners
  5. lampoonery
  6. lampooning
  7. lampoonings
  8. lampoonish
  9. lampoonist
  10. lampoonists
  11. lampoonry

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