persiflage
French
noun
Definitions
- Ridicule or malicious mockery made under the guise of good-natured raillery.
Etymology
Affix from French persifler.
Origin
French
persifler
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- persiflage English
- persiflageous English
- *sūbilō Latin
- assibilo Latin
- sibilatrix Latin
- sībilō Latin
- Persiflage German
- persiflage Dutch, Flemish
- persifleren Dutch, Flemish
- persifler French
- persyflaż Polish
- sibilar Interlingua