A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
The lively parody which he wrote […] was received with great applause.
A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
From Latin parōdia, from Ancient Greek παρῳδία (parōidía, “parody”), from παρά (pará, “besides”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
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