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ridicule

verb

  1. make fun of
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noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl/

adj

Etymology: The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”). The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus. The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.

  1. ridiculous

    late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives This action […] became so ridicule.

noun

Etymology: Apparently from French ridicule (“reticule”), probably a punning alteration of réticule after ridicule (“ridicule”).

  1. A small woman's handbag; a reticule.

    […] while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady’s replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold ridicule by her side, […]

    I hastily drew my empty hand from my Ridicule.

verb

Etymology: The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”). The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus. The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.

  1. To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.

    His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.