LAMPOON

PRONUNCIATION: (lam-POON)

MEANING: noun: A biting satire directed against a person or institution.
verb tr.: To ridicule or satirize.

ETYMOLOGY: From French lampon, from lampons (let us drink), imperative of slang lamper (to gulp down), from laper (to lap up). Earliest documented use: 1645.
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L'ARPOON - a pointy stick used by French whalers

L'AMPOGON - a tool for increasing the number of sides on a many-sided drawing

LAMBOON - an automatic shearing machine that sheep can simply walk through