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Burlesque vs Mimicry - What's the difference?

burlesque | mimicry | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between burlesque and mimicry

is that burlesque is a derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody while mimicry is the act or ability to simulate the appearance of someone or something else.

As an adjective burlesque

is parodical; parodic.

As a verb burlesque

is to make a burlesque parody of.

burlesque

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Parodical; parodic
  • * Addison
  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * burlesquely

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.
  • * Addison
  • Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.
  • * Dryden
  • The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, / And pleased by novelty in spite of sense.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque  ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”}}
  • A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s.
  • A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
  • * Burke
  • Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?

    Synonyms

    * (parody) lampoon, travesty

    Verb

    (burlesqu)
  • To make a parody of
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, February 5, Billie Lawless, Laying Down the Lawless, Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=When the venerable New York Times took my quote in which I described the neon elements as "burlesquing the myth of male dominance" and instead printed "he prefers to describe them as . . . symbols of male dominance" it became clear that dealing with journalists was going to be one long, rocky road.}}
  • To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
  • * Stillingfleet
  • They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.
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    mimicry

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mimickry

    Noun

    (mimicries)
  • the act or ability to simulate the appearance of someone or something else
  • They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me.
    When animal mimicry goes really wrong they don't just look like something that a predator would ignore, they look like lunch.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "mimicry")