Other forms: lampoons
A lampoon is a piece of writing that mocks somebody publicly. A savage lampoon, lampoon the government, lampooned in the press.
It is public and personal by definition, which is what separates it from satire in general. The French behind it is a drinking song refrain meaning let us drink, which says a good deal about how they were composed.
1nounlampoonA piece of writing that mocks somebody publicly.
“The magazine published a savage lampoon of the prime minister as a greedy pig.”
lampoon is a satire.
French lampon comes from lampons, let us drink, a refrain in scurrilous drinking songs.
French
lampon — satire, mockery, ridicule
English, today
lampoon
Built from
From French lampon (“satire, mockery, ridicule”), built on French lampons (“let us drink — a popular refrain for scurrilous songs”), from lamper (“to quaff, to swig”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA