poke fun - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
poke fun (third-person singular simple present pokes fun, present participle poking fun, simple past and past participle poked fun)
- To subject someone to laughter or ridicule. [with at]
1915, L. Frank Baum, chapter 5, in The Scarecrow of Oz:
Trot laughed, but Cap'n Bill thought the little man was poking fun at him and so he scowled upon Pessim in a way that showed he was angry.
- make fun of
- See also Thesaurus:ridicule
to subject to laughter
- Czech: vysmát se pf, vysmívat se impf, vystavit výsměchu pf
- Finnish: tehdä pilkkaa
- French: faire la nique (fr)
- Hungarian: kigúnyol (hu), gúnyol (hu), gúnyolódik (hu), tréfát űz
- Irish: bí ag magadh faoi, bí ag piocadh ar, bí ag spochadh as
- Italian: ridicolizzare
- Maori: pāengaenga
- Polish: nabijać się impf
- Spanish: ridiculizar (es), burlarse (es), mofarse (es), pitorrearse (es), chotearse (es) (Spain, colloquial)