Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who burlesques or turns to ridicule.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who burlesques.

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  • noun A burlesque performer.

Etymologies

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burlesque +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Say, when I was your age I didn't plan to be no bum burlesquer neither.

    Roast Beef, Medium Edna Ferber 1926

  • I believe that after the scope of the burlesque made itself clear, there was no one there, including the burlesquer himself, who was not smitten with a desolating dismay.

    Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

  • I believe that after the scope of the burlesque made itself clear, there was no one there, including the burlesquer himself, who was not smitten with a desolating dismay.

    My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

  • Local burlesquer Michelle Baldwin has known a lot of driven people: One guy she knew had only five things in his house for a time; another couple of collectors were finally so freaked by how much stuff they had that they purged it all from their house.

    Westword | Complete Issue 2009

  • Local burlesquer Michelle Baldwin has known a lot of driven people: One guy she knew had only five things in his house for a time; another couple of collectors were finally so freaked by how much stuff they had that they purged it all from their house.

    Westword | Complete Issue 2009

  • Local burlesquer Michelle Baldwin has known a lot of driven people: One guy she knew had only five things in his house for a time; another couple of collectors were finally so freaked by how much stuff they had that they purged it all from their house.

    Westword | Complete Issue 2009

  • Local burlesquer Michelle Baldwin has known a lot of driven people: One guy she knew had only five things in his house for a time; another couple of collectors were finally so freaked by how much stuff they had that they purged it all from their house.

    Westword | Complete Issue 2009

  • I can bawl, can't I, if I _am_ a bum burlesquer? "

    Roast Beef, Medium Edna Ferber 1926

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