Adjective: burlesque
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more burlesque |
| Superlative | most burlesque |
Sample Sentences
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It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. [1711 December 25 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, December 15, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 249; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:]
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Podunk. A term applied to an imaginary place in burlesque writing or speaking. [1877, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, 4th edition, page 791:]
Adjectives inflected like burlesque
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from French burlesque, from Italian burlesco (“parodic”). See: French Adjectives '
burlesque', Italian Adjectives '
burlesco'.