ENGLISH: ridicule - CREOLE: ridikil



Overview of noun ridicule



The noun ridicule has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (2) ridicule -- (language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate)

2. derision, ridicule -- (the act of deriding or treating with contempt)



Overview of verb ridicule



The verb ridicule has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (3) ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun -- (subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday")

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