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lampoonry

lampoonry is the alternative form of lampoonery.

Meaning of lampoonery

Noun

lampoonery (usually uncountable, plural lampooneries)

  1. (usually) The act of lampooning.
    • It's easy to come up with a scene or two spoofing the creator of such American archetypes as Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Big Daddy, and Amanda Wingfield; what's tricky is to sustain lampoonery over a full evening.1989 September 29, Albert Williams, “The Glass Mendacity”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of lampoonry

From lampoon + -ry.

Questions about lampoonry

What is lampoonry the alternative form of?
Lampoonry is the alternative form of lampoonery.

Words near lampoonry in the dictionary

  1. lampooning
  2. lampoonings
  3. lampoonish
  4. lampoonist
  5. lampoonists
  6. lampoonry
  7. lampoons
  8. Lamport
  9. Lamport timestamp
  10. Lamport timestamps
  11. lampost

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lampoonry (page history and authors); lampoonery (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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