English English Dictionary

One who burls or dresses cloth.

To employ burlesque.

To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.

Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.

Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.

An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.

A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.

of Burlesque

One who burlesques.

of Burlesque

A comic operetta; a music farce.

Quality of being burly.

of Burl

Coarse and rough; boisterous.

Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.

Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.

A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese.

of Burman

Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants.

A native or the natives of Burmah. Also (sing.), the language of the Burmans.