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
- 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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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.
