spoof

== English == === Etymology 1 === Coined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: spo͞of, IPA(key): /spuːf/ Rhymes: -uːf ==== Noun ==== spoof (countable and uncountable, plural spoofs) (countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. [from 1889] (computing) A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack. [21st c.] (countable) A light parody. [from 1958] (countable, UK, historical) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held. (uncountable) Nonsense. ===== Synonyms ===== (light parody): parody, satire, send-up/sendup ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== spoof (not comparable) Fake, hoax. ==== Verb ==== spoof (third-person singular simple present spoofs, present participle spoofing, simple past and past participle spoofed) (transitive) To gently satirize. [from 1914] Synonym: send up Hypernyms: satirize, satirise Coordinate terms: parodize, parody, travesty (transitive) To deceive. (ambitransitive, computing) To falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: spo͝of, IPA(key): /spʊf/ Rhymes: -ʊf ==== Noun ==== spoof (uncountable) (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Semen. ===== Synonyms ===== (semen): spunk (chiefly UK), spooge (US), cum, jizz, jizzum, jism, gism, nut, junk See Thesaurus:semen ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== spoof (third-person singular simple present spoofs, present participle spoofing, simple past and past participle spoofed) (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To ejaculate, to come. ===== Synonyms ===== See Thesaurus:ejaculate ===== Derived terms ===== spoofy ===== Translations ===== === References === === Further reading === spoof (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia spoof (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === poofs