parody

From Latin parōdia, from Ancient Greek παρῳδία (parōidía, “parody”), from παρά (pará, “besides”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹədi/, /ˈpɛɹədi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹədi/
• Hyphenation: par‧o‧dy

• parity

parody (countable and uncountable, plural parodies)

1. A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
   • Macaulay

     The lively parody which he wrote […] was received with great applause.

2. (countable, archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.

parody (third-person singular simple present parodies, present participle parodying, simple past and past participle parodied)

1. To make a parody of something.

   The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.

• satire, satirize
• pastiche
• send up, sendup, send-up
• spoof

• parody in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• parody in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• parody at OneLook Dictionary Search