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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who is given to satire, especially a writer of satirical works.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who indulges in satire; especially, the writer of a satire or satirical composition.

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

  • noun One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who writes satire.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

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  • Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin

    October 26, 2007