spoofn.adj.

Brit.

/spuːf/, U.S.

/spuf/

Etymology: Invented by Arthur Roberts (1852–1933), British comedian.

slang.

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’.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > children's or simple games > [noun]

snap snorum1622

beggar-my-neighbour1734

snip-snap-snorum1755

old maid1831

pounce commerce1847

muggins1855

happy families1861

author1863

snap1881

strip-jack-naked1881

spoof1884

animal grab1894

grab1900

donkey1920

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others

sitisota1400

papsea1450

half-bowl1477

pluck at the crow1523

white and black1555

running game1581

blow-pointa1586

hot cocklesa1586

one penny1585

cockelty bread1595

pouch1600

venter-point1600

hinch-pinch1603

hardhead1606

poor and rich1621

rowland-hoe1622

hubbub1634

handicap?a1653

owl1653

ostomachy1656

prelledsa1660

quarter-spellsa1660

yert-point1659

bob-her1702

score1710

parson has lost his cloak1712

drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754

French Fox1759

goal1765

warpling o' the green1768

start1788

kiss-in-the-ring1801

steal-clothes1809

steal-coat1816

petits paquets1821

bocce1828

graces1831

Jack-in-the-box1836

hot hand1849

sparrow-mumbling1852

Aunt Sally1858

gossip1880

Tambaroora1882

spoof1884

fishpond1892

nim1901

diabolo1906

Kim's game1908

beaver1910

treasure-hunt1913

roll-down1915

rock scissors paper1927

scissors cut paper1927

scissors game1927

the dozens1928

toad in the hole1930

game1932

scissors paper stone1932

Roshambo1936

Marco Polo1938

scavenger hunt1940

skish1940

rock paper scissors1947

to play chicken1949

sounding1962

joning1970

arcade game1978

1884 Topical Times 13 Dec. 3/2 The revival of Spouf in Great Britain and America is..wholly due to private enterprise, and..Monsieur Arthur Roberts.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 May 5/1 ‘The Adelphi Club was the birthplace of the mysterious game called “Spoof”, was it not?’—‘Yes, I invented the pastime.’

1894 D. C. Murray Rising Star II. 235 There is in theatrical circles an amusement which is known as the game of spoof.

1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales 89 We..were sitting in our dining~room tent fanning ourselves vigorously and playing ‘spoof’.

a. Hoax, humbug; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun]

legerdemain1532

hocus-pocus1647

sham1683

funning1728

humbugging1752

humming1807

hoaxing1808

larking1813

cutting-up1843

cut-up1843

shenanigan1855

codology1860

greening1863

cod1866

leg-pulling1879

spoof1889

codding1892

spoofery1895

four-flushing1901

kidding1901

shenaniganning1924

kidology1964

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax

pratOE

mowa1393

pageant?c1430

jimp?1572

prank1576

jest1578

jig1592

frump1593

trick1605

bilk1664

fun1699

plisky1706

humbug1750

hum1751

practical joke1751

marlock1763

quiz1795

practical joke1804

skite1804

hoax1808

skit1815

wrinkle1817

rusty1835

funny business1838

string1851

stringer1851

cod1862

mank1865

spoof1889

leg-pull1893

rannygazoo1896

shenanigan1926

gotcha1967

to throw a fastball1968

wind-up1984

1889 E. 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’.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 2/1 There seems just a little too much ‘spoof’ about the long-talked-of Trickoli.

1905 Sat. 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > lampoon or satire

bill1426

satire1509

squibc1525

pasquil1542

pasquinata1592

cockalane1596

pasquinado1600

Pasquin1611

lampoon1645

pasquinade1658

banter1695

jeu d'esprit1712

Dunciad1728

squiblet1820

squibling1884

satirette1894

spoof1958

1958 Oxf. Mag. 13 Mar. 374/2 This..programme..proved to be an experimental double-dose of theatrical spoof.

1958 Films in Rev. May 254/1 There had been a few films which foreshadowed the screwball pattern, particularly the hilarious Hollywood spoof Bombshell.

1975 D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 61 Even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof.

1977 Time 3 Jan. 71/1 The prolific Gardner sets a spoof of pulp fiction inside a philosophical monologue on good and evil.

3. attributive and as adj. Hoaxing, humbugging.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [adjective]

hocus-pocus1668

legerdemain1683

hoaxical1819

tricky1868

spoof1884

plisky1887

1884 Topical 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.

1895 A. Roberts in Daily News 26 Aug. 6/3 My ‘spoof French’ has often been the subject of amusement.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 7/2 Asking him to..send a ‘spoof wire’—meaning any sort of nonsense.

1914 G. B. Shaw Fanny's Last Play Epil., in Misalliance 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 Observer 20 Nov. 20/5 This is a spoof piece which fails, through sheer clumsiness, to spoof.

1946 V. 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.

1978 K. Gregory First Cuckoo 25 [Readers] are invited to spot the ‘spoof’ letter whose apparent erudition hoaxed the editor into printing it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spoofv.

Brit.

/spuːf/, U.S.

/spuf/

Etymology: < spoof n.

colloquial and slang.

1. transitive. To hoax or humbug; †to avoid by means of a ruse. Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)]

jape1362

bejape1377

play1562

jugglea1592

dally1595

trick1595

bore1602

jadea1616

to fool off1631

top1663

whiska1669

hocus1675

to put a sham upon1677

sham1677

fun?1685

to put upon ——1687

rig1732

humbug1750

hum1751

to run a rig1764

hocus-pocus1774

cram1794

hoax1796

kid1811

string1819

to play off1821

skylark1823

frisk1825

stuff1844

lark1848

kiddy1851

soap1857

to play it (on)1864

spoof1889

to slip (something) over (on)1912

cod1941

to pull a person's chain1975

game1996

1889 E. Dowson Let. 10 Mar. (1967) 48 It is the ‘après’ wh. spoofs us.

1889 E. Dowson Let. 11 Nov. (1967) 115 The Lord Mayorlet's Tom Foolery was a nuisance. I spoofed it successfully by going from Limehouse to Bloomsbury by tram.

1895 Punch 28 Dec. 301/1 I ‘spoof’ him—to use a latter~day term.

1901 Daily Mail 2 Apr. 5/7 The House gave the willing tribute of laughter to the fact that it had been ‘spoofed’.

1933 Sun (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.

2. To make (something) appear foolish by means of parody; to ‘send up’. Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > ridicule or mock by specific means [verb (transitive)] > ridicule or mock by imitation

mocka1616

buffoon1638

mimic1671

burlesque1676

parody1733

caricature1749

to take off1750

travesty1825

grotesque1875

cartoon1884

spoof1927

to send up1931

1927 Observer 20 Nov. 20/5 This is a spoof piece which fails, through sheer clumsiness, to spoof.

1953 Time 6 July 68/2 Parade..spoofed the whole practice with a circulation brochure to prove that it is headed unmistakably toward the ‘googol’.

1981 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Mar. 10/3 ‘Urbababble’..spoofs the lingo of those urbane people in the city business.

3. To render (a radar system, etc.) useless by providing it with false information.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > communicate by radio [verb (transitive)] > of radar: render useless

spoof1972

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > putting weapons or equipment out of action > put weapons or equipment out of action [verb (transitive)] > render radar useless

spoof1972

1972 Sci. 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.

1977 R.A.F. News 27 Apr. 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.

Derivatives

spoofed adj.

/spuːft/

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [adjective] > mockingly imitative > ridiculed by imitation

travesty1664

travestied1677

caricatured1813

spoofed1958

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [adjective] > fooled, duped

foolified1584

fool-taken1608

cozened1610

gullified1624

gulled1647

sweet1673

bubbled1681

bilked1682

imposed-upon1706

cheated1709

duped1756

pigeoned1777

swindled1809

thimblerigged1840

befooled1842

bamboozled1866

spoofed1958

dicked1972

1958 P. Scott Mark of Warrior ii. 176 He's got me spoofed in terms of the exercise.

1975 New 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.

ˈspoofer n. one who spoofs.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation > one who

burlesquer1657

caricaturer1758

caricaturist1798

spoofer1914

piss-taker1976

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > practitioner

japer1362

practiser1545

practitioner1560

amuser1583

fopper1659

hummer1763

prankster1811

hoaxer1814

puck1823

practical joker1830

pranking1852

card1853

leg-puller1887

kidder1888

pranker1890

codologist1897

spoofer1914

wind-up artist1984

1914 Conc. Oxf. Dict. Addenda Spoofer.

1926 A. H. Godwin Gilbert & Sullivan 219 Bunthorne..is, in common language, a spoofer.

1928 Sunday Express 27 May 7/4 ‘I don't believe it, do you?’ ‘Of course not,’ I replied, ‘The fellow's a spoofer.’

1976 Time 20 Dec. 53/3 Gardner has set himself two roles..: the hilarious spoofer of pulp fiction [etc.].

ˈspoofery n. †(a) plural, a low sporting club; also spec. the Adelphi (cf. 1889 at spoof n. 1) (obsolete slang); (b) trickery, hoaxing.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > specific club

spoofery1895

athletics club1954

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun]

legerdemain1532

hocus-pocus1647

sham1683

funning1728

humbugging1752

humming1807

hoaxing1808

larking1813

cutting-up1843

cut-up1843

shenanigan1855

codology1860

greening1863

cod1866

leg-pulling1879

spoof1889

codding1892

spoofery1895

four-flushing1901

kidding1901

shenaniganning1924

kidology1964

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling

dicing-house1549

carding house1550

gaming house1562

dicing-chamber1571

tabling house1576

game house?1577

macaroni1771

gambling house1772

gambling school1773

gambling club1774

spill-house1778

gambling hall?1781

gambling den1792

gambling booth1804

hell1812

gambling hell1818

Crockford1827

silver hell1835

deadfall1837

casino1851

house1855

tripot1864

skin house1871

bucket-shop1875

gambling joint1885

salle1886

tabling den1886

spoofery1895

salle de jeu1901

strong joint1914

kitchen1924

salle privée1930

spieler1931

1895 People 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.

1903 A. 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.

1926 K. 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.

1978 G. 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.

ˈspoofing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation

mock1646

travestya1668

burlesquing1677

parody1730

burlesque1753

taking off1755

ludicrism1830

masquerade1847

caricaturing1859

charade1871

spoofing1920

piss-taking1967

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [adjective] > mockingly imitative > that ridicules by imitation

burlesquing1688

spoofing1920

society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > other methods or operations > radar > procedures

spoofing1920

illumination1942

shaping1945

interrogation1946

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [adjective] > employing trickery

trifling?a1400

bantering1660

hoaxing1808

mystifyingc1827

bluffing1850

four-flushing1901

spoofing1920

shenaniganning1924

1920 Quill Dec. 9 The after-dinner speeches..were brilliant impromptu spoofings directed at the guest of honor.

a1936 R. Kipling Something of Myself (1937) iii. 48 There were..‘spoofing’-letters from subalterns to be guarded against.

1965 H. Kahn On Escalation v. 86 If the super-ready status is accompanied by limited ‘spoofing’ or ‘jamming’ or other hostile acts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spoof
释义	spoofn.adj. Brit. /spuːf/, U.S. /spuf/ Etymology: Invented by Arthur Roberts (1852–1933), British comedian. slang. 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’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > children's or simple games > [noun] snap snorum1622 beggar-my-neighbour1734 snip-snap-snorum1755 old maid1831 pounce commerce1847 muggins1855 happy families1861 author1863 snap1881 strip-jack-naked1881 spoof1884 animal grab1894 grab1900 donkey1920 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others sitisota1400 papsea1450 half-bowl1477 pluck at the crow1523 white and black1555 running game1581 blow-pointa1586 hot cocklesa1586 one penny1585 cockelty bread1595 pouch1600 venter-point1600 hinch-pinch1603 hardhead1606 poor and rich1621 rowland-hoe1622 hubbub1634 handicap?a1653 owl1653 ostomachy1656 prelledsa1660 quarter-spellsa1660 yert-point1659 bob-her1702 score1710 parson has lost his cloak1712 drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754 French Fox1759 goal1765 warpling o' the green1768 start1788 kiss-in-the-ring1801 steal-clothes1809 steal-coat1816 petits paquets1821 bocce1828 graces1831 Jack-in-the-box1836 hot hand1849 sparrow-mumbling1852 Aunt Sally1858 gossip1880 Tambaroora1882 spoof1884 fishpond1892 nim1901 diabolo1906 Kim's game1908 beaver1910 treasure-hunt1913 roll-down1915 rock scissors paper1927 scissors cut paper1927 scissors game1927 the dozens1928 toad in the hole1930 game1932 scissors paper stone1932 Roshambo1936 Marco Polo1938 scavenger hunt1940 skish1940 rock paper scissors1947 to play chicken1949 sounding1962 joning1970 arcade game1978 1884 Topical Times 13 Dec. 3/2 The revival of Spouf in Great Britain and America is..wholly due to private enterprise, and..Monsieur Arthur Roberts. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 May 5/1 ‘The Adelphi Club was the birthplace of the mysterious game called “Spoof”, was it not?’—‘Yes, I invented the pastime.’ 1894 D. C. Murray Rising Star II. 235 There is in theatrical circles an amusement which is known as the game of spoof. 1895 B. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] legerdemain1532 hocus-pocus1647 sham1683 funning1728 humbugging1752 humming1807 hoaxing1808 larking1813 cutting-up1843 cut-up1843 shenanigan1855 codology1860 greening1863 cod1866 leg-pulling1879 spoof1889 codding1892 spoofery1895 four-flushing1901 kidding1901 shenaniganning1924 kidology1964 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax pratOE mowa1393 pageant?c1430 jimp?1572 prank1576 jest1578 jig1592 frump1593 trick1605 bilk1664 fun1699 plisky1706 humbug1750 hum1751 practical joke1751 marlock1763 quiz1795 practical joke1804 skite1804 hoax1808 skit1815 wrinkle1817 rusty1835 funny business1838 string1851 stringer1851 cod1862 mank1865 spoof1889 leg-pull1893 rannygazoo1896 shenanigan1926 gotcha1967 to throw a fastball1968 wind-up1984 1889 E. 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’. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 2/1 There seems just a little too much ‘spoof’ about the long-talked-of Trickoli. 1905 Sat. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > lampoon or satire bill1426 satire1509 squibc1525 pasquil1542 pasquinata1592 cockalane1596 pasquinado1600 Pasquin1611 lampoon1645 pasquinade1658 banter1695 jeu d'esprit1712 Dunciad1728 squiblet1820 squibling1884 satirette1894 spoof1958 1958 Oxf. Mag. 13 Mar. 374/2 This..programme..proved to be an experimental double-dose of theatrical spoof. 1958 Films in Rev. May 254/1 There had been a few films which foreshadowed the screwball pattern, particularly the hilarious Hollywood spoof Bombshell. 1975 D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 61 Even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof. 1977 Time 3 Jan. 71/1 The prolific Gardner sets a spoof of pulp fiction inside a philosophical monologue on good and evil. 3. attributive and as adj. Hoaxing, humbugging. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [adjective] hocus-pocus1668 legerdemain1683 hoaxical1819 tricky1868 spoof1884 plisky1887 1884 Topical 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. 1895 A. Roberts in Daily News 26 Aug. 6/3 My ‘spoof French’ has often been the subject of amusement. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 7/2 Asking him to..send a ‘spoof wire’—meaning any sort of nonsense. 1914 G. B. Shaw Fanny's Last Play Epil., in Misalliance 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 Observer 20 Nov. 20/5 This is a spoof piece which fails, through sheer clumsiness, to spoof. 1946 V. 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. 1978 K. Gregory First Cuckoo 25 [Readers] are invited to spot the ‘spoof’ letter whose apparent erudition hoaxed the editor into printing it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). spoofv. Brit. /spuːf/, U.S. /spuf/ Etymology: < spoof n. colloquial and slang. 1. transitive. To hoax or humbug; †to avoid by means of a ruse. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)] jape1362 bejape1377 play1562 jugglea1592 dally1595 trick1595 bore1602 jadea1616 to fool off1631 top1663 whiska1669 hocus1675 to put a sham upon1677 sham1677 fun?1685 to put upon ——1687 rig1732 humbug1750 hum1751 to run a rig1764 hocus-pocus1774 cram1794 hoax1796 kid1811 string1819 to play off1821 skylark1823 frisk1825 stuff1844 lark1848 kiddy1851 soap1857 to play it (on)1864 spoof1889 to slip (something) over (on)1912 cod1941 to pull a person's chain1975 game1996 1889 E. Dowson Let. 10 Mar. (1967) 48 It is the ‘après’ wh. spoofs us. 1889 E. Dowson Let. 11 Nov. (1967) 115 The Lord Mayorlet's Tom Foolery was a nuisance. I spoofed it successfully by going from Limehouse to Bloomsbury by tram. 1895 Punch 28 Dec. 301/1 I ‘spoof’ him—to use a latter~day term. 1901 Daily Mail 2 Apr. 5/7 The House gave the willing tribute of laughter to the fact that it had been ‘spoofed’. 1933 Sun (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. 2. To make (something) appear foolish by means of parody; to ‘send up’. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > ridicule or mock by specific means [verb (transitive)] > ridicule or mock by imitation mocka1616 buffoon1638 mimic1671 burlesque1676 parody1733 caricature1749 to take off1750 travesty1825 grotesque1875 cartoon1884 spoof1927 to send up1931 1927 Observer 20 Nov. 20/5 This is a spoof piece which fails, through sheer clumsiness, to spoof. 1953 Time 6 July 68/2 Parade..spoofed the whole practice with a circulation brochure to prove that it is headed unmistakably toward the ‘googol’. 1981 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Mar. 10/3 ‘Urbababble’..spoofs the lingo of those urbane people in the city business. 3. To render (a radar system, etc.) useless by providing it with false information. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > communicate by radio [verb (transitive)] > of radar: render useless spoof1972 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > putting weapons or equipment out of action > put weapons or equipment out of action [verb (transitive)] > render radar useless spoof1972 1972 Sci. 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. 1977 R.A.F. News 27 Apr. 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. Derivatives spoofed adj. /spuːft/ ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [adjective] > mockingly imitative > ridiculed by imitation travesty1664 travestied1677 caricatured1813 spoofed1958 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [adjective] > fooled, duped foolified1584 fool-taken1608 cozened1610 gullified1624 gulled1647 sweet1673 bubbled1681 bilked1682 imposed-upon1706 cheated1709 duped1756 pigeoned1777 swindled1809 thimblerigged1840 befooled1842 bamboozled1866 spoofed1958 dicked1972 1958 P. Scott Mark of Warrior ii. 176 He's got me spoofed in terms of the exercise. 1975 New 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. ˈspoofer n. one who spoofs. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation > one who burlesquer1657 caricaturer1758 caricaturist1798 spoofer1914 piss-taker1976 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > practitioner japer1362 practiser1545 practitioner1560 amuser1583 fopper1659 hummer1763 prankster1811 hoaxer1814 puck1823 practical joker1830 pranking1852 card1853 leg-puller1887 kidder1888 pranker1890 codologist1897 spoofer1914 wind-up artist1984 1914 Conc. Oxf. Dict. Addenda Spoofer. 1926 A. H. Godwin Gilbert & Sullivan 219 Bunthorne..is, in common language, a spoofer. 1928 Sunday Express 27 May 7/4 ‘I don't believe it, do you?’ ‘Of course not,’ I replied, ‘The fellow's a spoofer.’ 1976 Time 20 Dec. 53/3 Gardner has set himself two roles..: the hilarious spoofer of pulp fiction [etc.]. ˈspoofery n. †(a) plural, a low sporting club; also spec. the Adelphi (cf. 1889 at spoof n. 1) (obsolete slang); (b) trickery, hoaxing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > specific club spoofery1895 athletics club1954 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] legerdemain1532 hocus-pocus1647 sham1683 funning1728 humbugging1752 humming1807 hoaxing1808 larking1813 cutting-up1843 cut-up1843 shenanigan1855 codology1860 greening1863 cod1866 leg-pulling1879 spoof1889 codding1892 spoofery1895 four-flushing1901 kidding1901 shenaniganning1924 kidology1964 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling dicing-house1549 carding house1550 gaming house1562 dicing-chamber1571 tabling house1576 game house?1577 macaroni1771 gambling house1772 gambling school1773 gambling club1774 spill-house1778 gambling hall?1781 gambling den1792 gambling booth1804 hell1812 gambling hell1818 Crockford1827 silver hell1835 deadfall1837 casino1851 house1855 tripot1864 skin house1871 bucket-shop1875 gambling joint1885 salle1886 tabling den1886 spoofery1895 salle de jeu1901 strong joint1914 kitchen1924 salle privée1930 spieler1931 1895 People 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. 1903 A. 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. 1926 K. 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. 1978 G. 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. ˈspoofing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation mock1646 travestya1668 burlesquing1677 parody1730 burlesque1753 taking off1755 ludicrism1830 masquerade1847 caricaturing1859 charade1871 spoofing1920 piss-taking1967 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [adjective] > mockingly imitative > that ridicules by imitation burlesquing1688 spoofing1920 society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > other methods or operations > radar > procedures spoofing1920 illumination1942 shaping1945 interrogation1946 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [adjective] > employing trickery trifling?a1400 bantering1660 hoaxing1808 mystifyingc1827 bluffing1850 four-flushing1901 spoofing1920 shenaniganning1924 1920 Quill Dec. 9 The after-dinner speeches..were brilliant impromptu spoofings directed at the guest of honor. a1936 R. Kipling Something of Myself (1937) iii. 48 There were..‘spoofing’-letters from subalterns to be guarded against. 1965 H. Kahn On Escalation v. 86 If the super-ready status is accompanied by limited ‘spoofing’ or ‘jamming’ or other hostile acts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1884v.1889
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