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Lampoon

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon. Ribald poets had lampooned him. Macaulay.

Synonyms: libel; defame; satirize; lash.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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