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Parody   /pˈɛrədi/   Listen
noun
parody  n.  (pl. parodies)  
1.
A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty. "The lively parody which he wrote... on Dryden's "Hind and Panther" was received with great applause."
2.
A popular maxim, adage, or proverb. (Obs.)


verb
parody  v. t.  (past & past part. parodied; pres. part. parodying)  To write a parody upon; to burlesque. "I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace."





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"Parody" Quotes from Famous Books



... pristine glory. At the fall of the curtain it soon became customary to sing "God save the King," the whole of the O.P.'s joining in loyal chorus. Sometimes this was followed by "Rule Britannia;" and, on two or three occasions, by a parody of the national anthem, which excited great laughter. A verse may not be ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay
... to look after the savage who was fireman. He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs. A few months of training had done for that really fine chap. He squinted at the steam-gauge and at the water-gauge with an evident effort of intrepidity—and he had filed teeth too, ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad
... not startling in any way, but Mr. Conkling had the reputation of being very much offended by the parody. ...
— McClure's Magazine, Volume VI, No. 3. February 1896 • Various
... of astronomical parody on the planet. Comets look some like planets, but they are thinner and do not hurt so hard when they hit anybody as a planet does. The comet was so called because it had hair on it, I believe, but late years the bald-headed comet is giving just ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... literature, were invented for the service of the Church—voluminous systems of recurrent double rhymes, intricate rhythms moulded upon tunes for chanting, solid melodic fabrics, which, having once been formed, were used for lighter efforts of the fancy, or lent their ponderous effects to parody. Thus, in the first half of the centuries which intervene between the extinction of the genuine Roman Empire and the year 1300, ecclesiastical poetry took the lead in creating and popularising new established types of verse, ...
— Wine, Women, and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse • Various


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