- persiflage
- noun Etymology: French, from persifler to banter, from per- thoroughly + siffler to whistle, hiss, boo, ultimately from Latin sibilare Date: 1757 frivolous bantering talk ; light raillery
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persiflage — [ pɛrsiflaʒ ] n. m. • 1735; de persifler ♦ Action de persifler; propos d une personne qui persifle. ⇒ ironie, moquerie, raillerie (cf. Mise en boîte). « C était un âpre persiflage, tourner chaque mot que je disais en dérision » (Montherlant). Des … Encyclopédie Universelle
persiflage — 1757, from Fr. persiflage, from persifler to banter, from L. per through + Fr. siffler to whistle, hiss, from collateral form of L. sibilare to hiss, possibly of imitative origin … Etymology dictionary
Persiflage — Per si flage , n. [F., fr. persifler to quiz, fr. L. per + siffler to whistle, hiss, L. sibilare, sifilare.] Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. Hannah More. [1913 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Persiflage — (fr., spr. Persiflasch), Spott, spitziger Tadel; Persifliren, auf seine, spitze Weise verspotten … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Persiflage — (franz., spr. ßiflasch ), versteckter Spott; persiflieren, einen durch solchen lächerlich machen … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Persiflage — (frz., spr. ahsch ), feiner versteckter Spott; persiflieren, auf feine Weise verspotten … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
Persiflage — Persiflage, jener seine Spott, welcher, mit Hilfe der Ironie, eine Person oder Sache lächerlich zu machen sucht. B–l … Damen Conversations Lexikon
Persiflage — (–lahsch), seiner Spott; persifliren, verspotten … Herders Conversations-Lexikon
persiflage — *badinage, raillery Analogous words: bantering or banter, chaffing or chaff (see BANTER): ridiculing or ridicule, twitting, deriding or derision (see corresponding verbs at RIDICULE) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
persiflage — ► NOUN formal ▪ light mockery or banter. ORIGIN from French persifler to banter … English terms dictionary
persiflage — [pʉr′sə fläzh΄] n. [Fr < persifler, to banter < per (see PER ) + siffler, to whistle, hiss < L sifilare, var. of sibilare: see SIBILANT] 1. a light, frivolous or flippant style of writing or speaking 2. such talk or writing … English World dictionary
