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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

lampon

a drinking song, fr.

lampons

let us drink, – the burden of such a song, fr.

lamper

to guzzle, to drink much and greedily; of German origin, and akin to E.

lap

to drink. Prob. so called because drinking songs often contain personal slander or satire.]

A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.

Like her who missed her name in a

lampoon

,
And grieved to find herself decayed so soon.

Dryden.

Syn. – To libel; defame; satirize; lash.

Noun.

A personal satire in writing; abuse; censure written to reproach and vex rather than to reform.

Verb.

To abuse with personal censure; to reproach in written satire.