Definitions
Etymologies
- From French coq-à-l'âne ("satire, incoherent story"). Compare cock-and-bull. (Wiktionary)
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘cockalane’.
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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Ridicule
Parody, satire, caricature.
minstrel show, golliwog, Poe’s law, skimmington, malkin, travesty, burlesque, blackface, cockalane, pasquin, pasquinade, satire and 12 more...
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hernesheir Here's a word, about certain words. Dec 22, 2011