Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
To employ burlesque.
To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
To render fat.
To swell out; to render pompous.
Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.
Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
To employ burlesque.
To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
To render fat.
To swell out; to render pompous.
Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.