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persiflated

persiflated is the simple past and past participle of persiflate.

Meaning of persiflate

Verb

persiflate (third-person singular simple present persiflates, present participle persiflating, simple past and past participle persiflated)

  1. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To engage in persiflage; to banter.
    • We talked and persifflated all the way to London; and the idea of her will help me to a good chapter, in which I will make Pendennis and Blanche play at being in love, such a wicked false humbugging love, as two blase London People might act, and half deceive themselves that they were in earnest.1850 August 21, William Makepeace Thackeray, edited by Gordon N[orton] Ray, The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, volume IV, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press...

Questions about persiflated

What is persiflated the simple past and past participle of?
Persiflated is the simple past and past participle of persiflate.

Words near persiflated in the dictionary

  1. persiflage
  2. persiflageous
  3. persiflages
  4. persiflant
  5. persiflate
  6. persiflated
  7. persiflates
  8. persiflating
  9. persifleur
  10. persifleurs
  11. persilaaromatic

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