单词 | spoof |
释义 | spoof I. transitive verb 1. < managed to spoof and terrorize the local officials by impersonating a government inspector — Edmund Stevens > < who had often been spoofed but who was still anxious to get at the truth — Saturday Review > 2. < the witty screenplay … spoofs this very quality — Los Angeles (Calif.) Examiner > < a deft satire … it … spoofs traveling salesmen — Amy Loveman > < spoof social customs — John McCarten > also < they're kidding you … don't let them spoof you — Agnes N. Keith > intransitive verb 1. < honesty pays … if I spoof I shall get found out — Thomas Wood †1950 > 2. < their type of gently spoofing satirical fantasy — Time > also < hear a minstrel show man spoof about one oyster in the stew — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > II. 1. a. < one sees that the whole thing is a clumsy spoof — J.F.Runciman > < one day a supposed spoof might be the real thing — W.R.Frye > b. < only don't try any more spoof about me — Joyce Cary > 2. < a pleasant spoof of all the moonstruck nonsense the movies have been dishing up — John McCarten > < those quiet, unpretentious, but deliciously funny spoofs of national types and customs — Arthur Knight > |
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