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Definition of Make fun
1. Verb. Subject to laughter or ridicule. "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
Generic synonyms: Bemock, Mock
Specialized synonyms: Tease, Lampoon, Satirise, Satirize, Debunk, Expose, Stultify
Derivative terms: Rib, Ribbing, Ridicule, Ridicule, Ridiculer, Roast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Make Fun
Literary usage of Make fun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"(NED) Cause. Because. English examples, 1556-1682 (NED). Much used by children
and illiterate people in the US 1798 [He] said so to make fun of me, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1849)
"We are willin' to make fun of faille* ; to make fun of humbug»; ta make fun of
the vanities of life, but not tht doing* of DIVING ..."
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"Was he not listening the first time or was it to make fun out of the name? ...
It was his own name that he should have made fun of if he wanted to make fun. ..."
4. The School World (1905)
"Never "make fun "of the spontaneous question ; sarcasm and irony are worse than
useless with little boys. After all, an enquiry is not an impertinent ..."
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