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χλευασμός
χλευασμός
Ancient Greek
Noun
χλευασμός • (khleuasmós) m (genitive χλευασμοῦ); second declension
- Irony (as a figure of speech)
- mockery, piece of impertinence, (incidence of) scoffing
References
- χλευασμός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χλευασμός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «χλευασμός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- badinage idem, page 58.
- banter idem, page 62.
- chaff idem, page 122.
- derision idem, page 214.
- gibe idem, page 359.
- jeer idem, page 462.
- laughter idem, page 479.
- mockery idem, page 537.
- ridicule idem, page 713.
- sarcasm idem, page 734.
- scoff idem, page 740.
- scoffing idem, page 740.
- sneer idem, page 789.
- taunt idem, page 857.