spoof

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
verb make a parody of

Coined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.

Great American Spoof Snake, The. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
Yet still though his eyes were thick with sleep and sea air life was full of a host of things and coincidences of a terrible nature and it was quite within the bounds of possibility that it was not an entire fabrication though at first blush there was not much inherent probability in all the spoof he got off his chest being strictly accurate gospel. — Ulysses, James Joyce

parody, lampoon, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on

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