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- v. idiomatic, informal To tease, ridicule or make jokes about, generally in a pejorative manner.
Examples
“Mom, the kids make fun of my clunky paper-route bike.”
“One day, at a hunting-party, papa called to Paul to come and sit beside him, and the other huntsmen, with singular bad taste, began to make fun of poor Paul, who sat much abashed, with hanging head.”
“So make fun of all this GOSSIP; the guiltiest ones are those who report it to you.”
“Chi and Dree used to make fun of the Wiccans by prancing in circles, waving old scarves around, and singing in falsetto voices about how they were magic wood nymphs who were trying to teach “Negroes” how to worship a white female as God.”
“Years ago we were more provincial even than now as, for instance, a certain Englishman, who wrote, while living in a small French town in 1813 these barbarians make fun of me everywhere just because I am properly dressed and speak the language of a human being.”
“I tried to make fun of his tone so she'd lighten up.”
“This talk about the Smileys and the rest of them had been a day or two before the morning on which we first saw Peggy – the morning that Thor tried so to make fun of her about choosing sugar in her bread and milk, because it was cold.”
“Garrick used his wonderful powers of mimicry to make fun of the uncouth caresses of the husband, and the courtly Beauclerc used to provoke the smiles of his audience by repeating Johnson's assertion that “it was a love-match on both sides.””
“The soldier's mother read it, and said something about our oughting to know better than to make fun of people's troubles with our tombstones and tomfoolery.”
“After all, a girl can wear mascara and nobody’ll make fun of her, but a guy just doesn’t have that option.”
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