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parody - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

parody (countable and uncountable, plural parodies)

  • A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
    • ✤ Coordinate terms: pastiche, send-up
    • ✤ The lively parody which he wrote […] was received with great applause.1
  • (countable, archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.

Verb

parody (third-person singular simple present parodies, present participle parodying, simple past and past participle parodied)

  • (transitive) To make a parody of something.
    • ✤ The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.

Etymology

From Latin parōdia, from Ancient Greek παρῳδία (parōidía, “parody”), from παρά (pará, “besides”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA: /ˈpæɹədi/
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA: /ˈpaɹədɪj/
    • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (US)
    • (without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /ˈpæɹədi/
    • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /ˈpɛɹədi/
  • (Scotland) IPA: /ˈpaɾəde/, /-dɪ/, /-di/
  • (Wales) IPA: /ˈpaɾədi/
  • Homophone: parity (flapping, weak vowel merger)
  • Hyphenation: par‧o‧dy

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Footnotes

  1. 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC: ↩