BURLESQUE
\bɜːlˈɛsk], \bɜːlˈɛsk], \b_ɜː_l_ˈɛ_s_k]\
Definitions of BURLESQUE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way
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a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)
By Princeton University
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a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way
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a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
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An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
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A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
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To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
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To employ burlesque.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
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An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
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A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
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To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
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To employ burlesque.
By Noah Webster.
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To ridicule or make ridiculous by caricatured representation.
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Tending to excite laughter by exaggerating the peculiarities or prominent features.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A jesting or ridiculing: a ludicrous representation.
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Jocular: comical.
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To turn into burlesque: to ridicule.
By Daniel Lyons
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The treatment of a ridiculous subject with mocksolemnity; a ridiculous representation.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To represent ludicrously; caricature.
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Marked by ludicrous incongruity.
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Ludicrous representation; caricature.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Tending to excite laughter by burlesque.
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A ludicrous representation of contrast; a composition in which the contrast between the subject and the manner of considering it renders it ludicrous, as when the trifling is treated seriously, or the serious, or rather mock serious, with levity.
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To turn to ridicule.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The turning any matter into ridicule; the representation of a subject in mock gravity with the view of exciting laughter.
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Tending to raise laughter; droll; comic.
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To turn a subject into ridicule; to treat a trifling matter with mock gravity to excite laughter.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. A ludicrous representation; a travestie;—treating a trifling theme in a grave manner, or a lofty theme in a childish manner;—ridiculing high events or characters, by putting them in the awkward situations of humble life;—a clever imitation or caricature.
