1. (n.) A writing or song that mimics another for comedy or satire; a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty.
2. (n.) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
3. (v. t.) To write a parody upon; to burlesque.
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