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| broadside |
a sheet of paper printed on one side only for distribution or posting, or a ballad or satire printed on such sheets. [1/9 definitions] |
| Gargantua |
in the sixteenth-century French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, a giant king with prodigious appetites. |
| lampoon |
an attack through ridicule, as in an essay, cartoon, or comedy; satire. [1/2 definitions] |
| Lilliput |
in Jonathan Swift's eighteenth-century satire Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by people who are about six inches tall. |
| Pantagruel |
in the sixteenth-century French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, a giant, good-natured, drunken jokester. |
| satirical |
of, concerning, containing, or marked by satire. [2 definitions] |
| satirist |
one who engages in or writes satire. |
| satirize |
to portray as being ridiculous by using satire; deride or attack with satire. |
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