Other forms: caricatures
A caricature is a drawing that exaggerates somebody's features. A political caricature, draw a caricature, a caricature of himself.
It works by pushing whatever is already distinctive further, which is why a good one is more recognisable than a photograph. Figuratively, to become a caricature of yourself is to exaggerate your own manner until nothing else is left.
1nouncaricatureA drawing that exaggerates somebody's features.
“A street artist drew a funny caricature of me with an enormous nose.”
caricature is a drawing.
Italian caricatura means a loading or exaggeration, from caricare, to load, from Latin carrus, a cart.
Proto-Indo-European
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French
caricature
English, today
caricature
Borrowed from French caricature. French caricature, from Italian caricatura, ultimately from Latin carrus, and so not related to character, which is instead ultimately from χαρακτήρ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA