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par·o·dy

| \ ˈper-ə-dē

, ˈpa-rə- \

1

: a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule

wrote a hilarious parody of a popular song

2

: a feeble or ridiculous imitation

a cheesy parody of a classic western

1

: to compose a parody on

parody a poem

2

: to imitate in the manner of a parody

parodic
\
pə-ˈrä-dik
, pa-
\
adjective

parodistic
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ˌper-ə-ˈdi-stik
, ˌpa-rə-
\
adjective

Noun

He has a talent for writing parodies .

a writer with a talent for parody

Verb

It was easy to parody the book's fancy language.

She parodied her brother's poetry.

The Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story is a spot-on parody of the brainless action heroes of the ’90s.

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David Sims, The Atlantic , 16 June 2022

There's something about the New Zealand character that lends itself to parody , Clement says.

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Luaine Lee Tribune News Service, Star Tribune , 20 July 2021

There’s been no reason given for the project’s scuttling, but one assumes the fact that Detours was a parody of the Star Wars franchise might have something to do with it.

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James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 Aug. 2022

This song is, frankly, not a bad Bob Dylan impression — but, c’mon, seriously, only Dylan can carry off Dylan, and every other attempt to do a Dylan is a parody — of the doer.

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Liza Lentini, SPIN , 20 July 2022

What was real and what was parody was almost indistinguishable.

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Jake Coyle, ajc , 19 May 2022

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
The film is made to parody 1950’s celebrity and political culture as well as give a quirky perspective on the era’s famous personas.

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Swarna Gowtham, Town & Country , 28 June 2022

More recently, he's begun posting TikTok videos that lovingly parody common movie and TV tropes.

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USA Today , 22 Mar. 2022

Rifkin’s Festival is a comic retrospective about a film professor (played by Wallace Shawn) who, in his pathetic senior years, sees his life in terms of old films — flashbacks and fantasies that parody the classic canon.

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Armond White, National Review , 4 Feb. 2022

Both the costumes and the photos actually parody the sort of images Westerners once made of Middle Eastern women.

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Washington Post , 12 Nov. 2021

However, the memo was meant to parody legislation in the U.S. restricting women's reproductive rights, and Rabb told USA TODAY his bill was never intended to pass.

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Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY , 2 Oct. 2021

To poke a hole in Instagram’s artificial veneer, Kite suggests encouraging your teen to follow people who parody social media’s toxic culture, such as comedic critics like @hicaitlinreilly.

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Washington Post , 17 Sep. 2021

However no one attempted to parody Smart's role as the Fruit Ninja-loving, manhattan-chugging great-grandmother Helen, because why mess with perfection?

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Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 16 June 2021

The blonde 31-year-old is known in downtown circles for the ability to lightly parody a ditzy life of iced matchas and Brandy Melville shopping sprees while also being the smartest voice on luxury timepieces for women.

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Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 19 May 2021

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Definition of parody (Entry 2 of 2)

caricature , burlesque , parody , travesty mean a comic or grotesque imitation. caricature implies ludicrous exaggeration of the characteristic features of a subject.

caricatures of politicians in cartoons

burlesque implies mockery especially through giving a serious or lofty subject a frivolous treatment.

a nightclub burlesque of a trial in court

parody applies especially to treatment of a trivial or ludicrous subject in the exactly imitated style of a well-known author or work.

a witty parody of a popular novel

travesty implies that the subject remains unchanged but that the style is extravagant or absurd.

this production is a travesty of the opera

These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'parody.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback .

1607, in the meaning defined at sense 1
1733, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Latin parodia , from Greek parōidia , from para- + aidein to sing — more at ode
“Parody.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parody. Accessed 12 Sep. 2022.
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Seymour Chatman; Parody and Style. Poetics Today 1 March 2001; 22 (1): 25–39. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-22-1-25
This article questions recent arguments that “parody” is the prototypical postmodern genre, an argument which not only goes needlessly beyond the traditional definition of the term but handicaps stylisticians from distinguishing between it and its neighboring kinds of texts. Citing a variety of examples, I repeat Genette's traditional discrimination among strict parody, travesty, satiric pastiche, and pure (or nonsatiric) pastiche. I also urge the importance of distinguishing between these forms and that of satire in general, agreeing with the oft-expressed view that parody often constitutes praise for the original (in Hutcheon's phrase, parody “authorizes”the original). I am concerned that an overly expansive definition of parody may lose the crucial distinction that makes parody so important to stylisticians, namely that well-done parodies (like Beerbohm's of Henry James)are extremely informative about the features that characterize individual styles. I also question whether equating parody with “irony” or“difference” (themselves such problematic terms) helps much in our understanding of it. Finally, I propose that stylistics should not limit itself unduly to the study of forms. Often the most telling clue in a parody is the imitation of subject matter, but subject matter so handled as to point to the preoccupations of the author of the original.

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Imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work
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A parody , also called a spoof , a satire , a send-up , a take-off , a lampoon , a play on ( something ), or a caricature , is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation . Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it — theme/content, author, style, etc. But a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture ). Literary scholar Professor Simon Dentith defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice". [1] The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said "parody ... is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text."
Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature , music , theater , television and film , animation , and gaming . Some parody is practiced in theater.

The writer and critic John Gross observes in his Oxford Book of Parodies , that parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche ("a composition in another artist's manner, without satirical intent") and burlesque (which "fools around with the material of high literature and adapts it to low ends"). [2] Meanwhile, the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot distinguishes between the parody and the burlesque, "A good parody is a fine amusement, capable of amusing and instructing the most sensible and polished minds; the burlesque is a miserable buffoonery which can only please the populace." [3] Historically, when a formula grows tired, as in the case of the moralistic melodramas in the 1910s, it retains value only as a parody, as demonstrated by the Buster Keaton shorts that mocked that genre. [4]

According to Aristotle ( Poetics , ii. 5), Hegemon of Thasos was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems he transformed the sublime into the ridiculous. In ancient Greek literature , a parodia was a narrative poem imitating the style and prosody of epics "but treating light, satirical or mock-hero
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