pasquin

Meanings

Noun

• A lampooner.
• A lampoon; a pasquinade.

Verb

• To lampoon or satirize.

Origin

• From Pasquino, a mutilated statue at Rome, set up against the wall of the place of the Orsini; so called from a witty cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up. On this statue it was customary to paste satirical notes.