spoof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spo͞of
ipa: /spuːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: spoofs
form: spoofing
form: spoofed
form: spoofed
Etymology: Coined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.
Senses: examples: text: Her [Jean Harlow's] best film is generally considered to be Bombshell (1933), in which she spoofed her own career as a Hollywood sex goddess.
ref: 1971, Harvey R. Deneroff, “Harlow, Jean”, in Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S[amuel] Boyer, editors, Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, volumes II (G–O), Cambridge, Mass.; London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 137:
text: [T]he ensemble [of From A to Z] included […] Elliott Reid spoofing television coverage of a political convention, Kelly Brown trying out another of those nostalgic soft-shoe numbers, and so on. The first-act finale observed a venerable revue tradition by spoofing a current hit show; From A to Z chose The Sound of Music.
ref: 2002, Ethan Mordden, “What’s in It for You?: The Shows of 1960”, in Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s (Golden Age of the Broadway Musical), New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 9:
text: According to the audio commentary on "Treehouse Of Horror III," some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the "Treehouse of Horror" franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2017:
text: The resulting conception of the Gulf region as a series of local destinations, as opposed to being an integrated maritime space unified by a body of water, is so pervasive that when Mississippi state legislator Steve Holland proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America in an effort to spoof his anti-immigration colleagues the joke was lost on the national media (Wilkinson 2012).
ref: 2014, Philip E. Steinberg, “Mediterranean Metaphors: Travel, Translation and Oceanic Imaginaries in the 'New Mediterraneans' of the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean”, in Jon Anderson, Kimberley Peters, editors, Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: To gently satirize.
examples: text: Bandy is a few miles from Duffersville—how many I won't say, because when, on local information, I told Ebsworth three and he walked it, he declared he had been deliberately spoofed, and went about vowing reprisals.
ref: 1889, Faed, [pseudonym; Arthur James Wilson], Nym [pseudonym], Duffersville: Its Cycling Chronicles and Other Sketches, Dublin: Irish Cyclist & Athlete Office; London: Iliffe and Son; Shrewsbury, Shropshire: F. W. Jervis, →OCLC, page 14:
text: Amidst surroundings thus happily suggesting the idyllic and pastoral associations of Arcady, is an unpretending booth, the placards on which announce it to be the temporary resting-place of the "Far-famed Adepts of Thibet," who are there for a much-needed change, after a "3500 years' residence in the Desert of Gobi." There is also a solemn warning that "it is impossible to spoof a Mahatma."
ref: 1892 August 27, “Two Penn’orth of Theosophy. (A Sketch at the Islington Arcadia.)”, in T. Taylor, editor, Punch, volume CIII, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 85, column 1:
glosses: To deceive.
examples: text: However, MULTOPS assumes that packet rates between two hosts are proportional and the IP addresses are not spoofed.
ref: 2003, Tao Peng, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, “Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks by Sharing Distributed Beliefs”, in Rei Safavi-Naini, Jennifer Seberry, editors, Information Security and Privacy: 8th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2003, Wollongong, Australia, July 9–11, 2003: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2727), Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 224:
text: [I]dentities in the online world can be easily spoofed. Your ten-year-old daughter will know that a middle-aged man is not her age or gender when she sees him in the physical world. But as we have seen, that middle-aged man can easily pass himself off as another ten-year-old girl in the online world.
ref: 2007, Wes Kussmaul, “The Solution”, in The Sex Life of Tables: What Happens When Databases about You … Mate, Waltham, Mass.: PKI Press, →ISBN, page 83:
text: This attack [session hijacking] uses the fact that most communications are protected at session setup but not thereafter. The attacker spoofs the victim's IP address and performs a DoS [denial-of-service] attack on the victim.
ref: 2009, Manfred Fettinger, “Overview of Security Attacks”, in Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Comparison of Different Approaches, [Munich]: GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, section 2.5.2 (Session Hijacking), page 5:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To falsify.
Synonyms: sense: to gently satirize
word: satirise
sense: to gently satirize
word: satirize
sense: to gently satirize
word: send up