A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty. The lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's "Hind and Panther" was received with great applause. Macaulay.
A popular maxim, adage, or proverb. [Obs.]
To write a parody upon; to burlesque. I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace. Pope.
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