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lampoon

/læmˈpuːn/

Where it comes from

From French lampon (“satire, mockery, ridicule”), built on French lampons (“let us drink — a popular refrain for scurrilous songs”), from lamper (“to quaff, to swig”).

: Littré quotes a satirical song mocking King Jacques II Stuart, fleeing Dublin, in 1691, and returning to France under the escort of Lauzun:

:: Prenez soin de ma couronne, J'aurai soin de ma personne ;

("Take care of my crown, I will take care of my person")

Lampons ! lampons !

noun lampoons

A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one. To say truth, Ma'am, 'tis very vulgar to Print and as my little Productions are mostly Satires and Lampoons I find they circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the Friends of the Parties—

verb lampoons · lampooning · lampooned

transitive To satirize or poke fun at. The original phrase was frequently lampooned in subsequent years, becoming strong enough in popular culture that the variations in place of ‘drugs’ probably didn’t take long to appear at all.
Similar: diss, trash talk, jibe, kid, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear

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noun written satirical attack

Español	sátira, libelo, pasquín, vejamen
한국어	풍자문 pungjamun
中文	諷刺文 /讽刺文 fěngcìwén
Português	libelo
Français	pasquin
Deutsch	Pamphlet, Schmähschrift, Spottschrift
Italiano	libello, pasquillo
Ελληνικά	σάτιρα sátira, λίβελλος lívellos
Русский	па́сквиль páskvilʹ, памфле́т pamflét, сати́ра satíra

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@misc{lampoon_2026,
  title = {lampoon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lampoon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}