lampoon
verb/læmˈpuːn/
/læmˈpuːn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they lampoon | /læmˈpuːn/ /læmˈpuːn/ |
| he / she / it lampoons | /læmˈpuːnz/ /læmˈpuːnz/ |
| past simple lampooned | /læmˈpuːnd/ /læmˈpuːnd/ |
| past participle lampooned | /læmˈpuːnd/ /læmˈpuːnd/ |
| -ing form lampooning | /læmˈpuːnɪŋ/ /læmˈpuːnɪŋ/ |
- lampoon somebody/something to criticize somebody/something publicly in a humorous way that makes them/it look silly synonym satirize
- His cartoons mercilessly lampooned the politicians of his time.
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French lampon, said to be from lampons ‘let us drink’ (used as a refrain), from lamper ‘gulp down’, nasalized form of laper ‘to lap (liquid)’.Definitions on the go
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