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Make fun   /meɪk fən/   Listen
Make fun

verb
1.
Subject to laughter or ridicule.  Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast.  "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" , "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"






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"Make fun" Quotes from Famous Books



... in their beautiful feathered suits began to walk and fly about the Turkey Buzzard, and to make fun of his plain, ...
— Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children • Mabel Powers

... reading—-"This is what they have been doing instead of something much less useful. There is not one of them who is not hoping one day to be a flyer at the front, and they have waited for the starting of flying at the new grounds with the greatest expectations. I don't think it is fair to make fun of them. If everyone in the country was as eager to do his duty in this war it would be ...
— The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps • James R. Driscoll

... low, poaching, thieving rascal like Bob Pretty turning up 'is nose at ten pounds was more than we could make out. Even on the second day, when George Barstow made it ten pounds down and a shilling a week for a year besides, he didn't offer to stir; all he did was to try and make fun o' them as was looking ...
— Captains All and Others • W.W. Jacobs

... his courage and his words. He had never before spoken out with authority. Antinoos and Eurymachos, the most insolent of them, began to ridicule him and excite the others to make fun of him. And they asked Telemachos what guest he had been entertaining so secretly and what news he had brought from his father. The suitors danced and sang, eating and drinking, until ...
— Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca - Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece • Homer

... holt o' the land hisse'f and all ther money besides, and leaves them to hold the bag! Wellsir, it was purty well got up; and they said it was John-Wes's doin's, and I 'low it was—he was a good hand at anything o' that sort, and knowed how to make fun.—But I've be'n a tellin' you purty much ever'thing but what I started out with, and I'll try and hurry through, 'cause ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley


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