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▪ I. spoof, n. (and a.) slang.|spuːf|
[Invented by A. Roberts (b. 1852), comedian.]
1. A game of a hoaxing and nonsensical character. Also, a trivial round game of cards in which certain cards when occurring together are denominated ‘spoof’.
1884Topical Times 13 Dec. 3/2 The revival of Spouf in Great Britain and America is..wholly due to private enterprise, and..Monsieur Arthur Roberts. 1889Pall Mall G. 14 May 5/1 ‘The Adelphi Club was the birthplace of the mysterious game called ‘Spoof’, was it not?’—‘Yes, I invented the pastime.’ 1894D. C. Murray Rising Star II. 235 There is in theatrical circles an amusement which is known as the game of spoof. 1895B. M. Croker Village Tales 89 We..were sitting in our dining⁓room tent fanning ourselves vigorously and playing ‘spoof’.
2. a. Hoax, humbug; an instance of this.
1889E. Dowson Let. 19 May (1967) 80 We sat dejectedly in the office but were obliged to admit finally that it was a case of ‘spoof’. 1897Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 2/1 There seems just a little too much ‘spoof’ about the long-talked-of Trickoli. 1905Sat. Rev. 16 Sept. 370 One sees that the whole thing is a clumsy spoof.
b. A skit or ‘send-up’; spec. a film, play, or other work that satirizes a particular genre.
1958Oxf. Mag. 13 Mar. 374/2 This..programme..proved to be an experimental double-dose of theatrical spoof. 1958Films in Review May 254/1 There had been a few films which foreshadowed the screwball pattern, particularly the hilarious Hollywood spoof Bombshell. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 61 Even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof. 1977Time 3 Jan. 71/1 The prolific Gardner sets a spoof of pulp fiction inside a philosophical monologue on good and evil.
3. attrib. and as adj. Hoaxing, humbugging.
1884Topical Times 13 Dec. 3/2 At Byzantium many Spouf Courts were; but when it became the capital of the Greek empire the game fell into disuse. 1895A. Roberts in Daily News 26 Aug. 6/3 My ‘spoof French’ has often been the subject of amusement. 1899Westm. Gaz. 27 June 7/2 Asking him to..send a ‘spoof wire’—meaning any sort of nonsense. 1914G. B. Shaw Fanny's First Play 229 How am I to know how to take it? Is it serious, or is it spoof? If the author knows what his play is, let him tell us what it is. 1927[see spoof v. b]. 1946V. Tempest Near Sun iii. 27 The spoof-feint raid that has been put on to make Jerry think that we are going to central Germany. 1978K. Gregory First Cuckoo 25 [Readers] are invited to spot the ‘spoof’ letter whose apparent erudition hoaxed the editor into printing it.
▪ II. spoof, v. colloq. and slang.
[f. the n.]
a. trans. To hoax or humbug; † to avoid by means of a ruse. Also absol.
1889E. Dowson Let. 10 Mar. (1967) 48 It is the ‘après’ wh. spoofs us. Ibid. 11 Nov. 115 The Lord Mayorlet's Tom Foolery was a nuisance. I spoofed it successfully by going from Limehouse to Bloomsbury by tram. 1895Punch 28 Dec. 301/1, I ‘spoof’ him—to use a latter⁓day term. 1901Daily Mail 2 Apr. 5/7 The House gave the willing tribute of laughter to the fact that it had been ‘spoofed’. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 8 July 6/7 It will be found necessary to handle our Doctor with much circumspection if he is not spoofing. 1977‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy i. 31 The story had everything... It spoofed the British.
b. To make (something) appear foolish by means of parody; to ‘send up’. Also absol.
1927Observer 20 Nov. 20/5 This is a spoof piece which fails, through sheer clumsiness, to spoof. 1953[see googol]. 1981W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Mar. 10/3 ‘Urbababble’..spoofs the lingo of those urbane people in the city business.
c. To render (a radar system, etc.) useless by providing it with false information.
1972Sci. Amer. July 18/3 The opposition need not even destroy the installation; by sampling the pulses emitted by the system it can contrive to ‘spoof’ or jam it. 1977R.A.F. News 27 Apr.–10 May 20/4 They were, however, ‘soft spots’ in a defensive system. They would have to be attacked again and again and they would have to be spoofed by the considerable number of methods now available.
Hence spoofed |spuːft| ppl. a.; ˈspoofer, one who spoofs; ˈspoofery, † (a) pl., a low sporting club; also spec. the Adelphi (cf. spoof n., quot. 1889) (obs. slang); (b) trickery, hoaxing; ˈspoofing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1895People 6 Jan. 13/4 About half-past one this morning I was in the ‘Spooferies’—Where? In the ‘Spooferies’—the Trafalgar Club they call it now—in Maiden-Lane. 1903A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise x. 227 ‘And when it comes to comparing the Spooferies with the House of Lords,’ the missive concluded, ‘it is a million to one on the Spooferies.’ The other name of the Spooferies was the Adelphi Club. 1914Conc. Oxf. Dict. Addenda, Spoofer. 1920Quill Dec. 9 The after-dinner speeches..were brilliant impromptu spoofings directed at the guest of honor. 1926A. H. Godwin Gilbert & Sullivan 219 Bunthorne..is, in common language, a spoofer. 1926K. Grahame in G. Sanger Seventy Years a Showman 20 The whole thing was unabashed ‘spoofery’—clumsy fakes, dried fish, abortions in bottles,..and so on. a1936Kipling Something of Myself (1937) iii. 48 There were..‘spoofing’-letters from subalterns to be guarded against. 1958P. Scott Mark of Warrior ii. 176 He's got me spoofed in terms of the exercise. 1965H. Kahn On Escalation v. 86 If the super-ready status is accompanied by limited ‘spoofing’ or ‘jamming’ or other hostile acts. 1975New Yorker 19 May 22/3 It's an atrocity, of course, and one of the most spoofed of all the Jeanette MacDonald–Nelson Eddy operettas. 1976Time 20 Dec. 53/3 Gardner has set himself two roles..: the hilarious spoofer of pulp fiction [etc.]. 1978G. Mitchell Wraiths & Changelings xv. 147 Ghosts are part of my stock-in-trade..so..I'm up to most of the dodges... The plainsong..was the only artistic effort..attempted in any of the spoofery. |