1. 1惡搞、KUSO 片、戲仿;台灣年輕人講的「惡搞版」「KUSO」就是這個。另一個完全不同的用法:資安上的「偽冒、假冒」(如假冒來電號碼、偽冒信件)

    A spoof is a funny copy. Somebody takes a serious film, TV show, song, , or type of story, it closely — the same music, the same camera moves, the same solemn voice — and pushes it just far enough that it becomes ridiculous. The joke works because you know the original. A spoof of a spy film has the tuxedo, the and the dramatic pause, but the is a spoon and the hero trips. Spoof is also a verb: a show spoofs the news, an spoofs a nature documentary. It sits close to parody, and often you can swap them, but spoof feels lighter and more — parody sounds like something a critic about, spoof sounds like something you watched on Saturday night. Neither is cruel by definition; a spoof can be made by people who love the original. There is a second, very different use you will meet online and at work: to spoof something technical means to fake it in order to fool a system — spoofing an email address or a phone number so it looks like it came from someone else. That use has no humour in it at all, and it is usually a crime. The word for the is a spoofed number, and the act is spoofing.

組成An unusual one: it was invented, not inherited. The English comedian Arthur Roberts made up the name Spoof in 1884 for a card game built on tricking and nonsense. The game is long forgotten but the word stayed, keeping both halves of its meaning — the playful nonsense (the funny copy) and the trickery (faking an identity).

原始詞典資料12 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

spoofnoun詞源 1/spuːf/

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    An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.

    • “Rahther, I say. But you understand, of course, that I’m giving him a bit of spoof.” / “A bit of what?” / “Spoof—spoof. Is it possible that you have been here since Saturday without learning what ‘spoof’ means? It means to chaff, to joke. In the States the slang equivalent would be ‘to string’ someone.” / “How did you learn it?” / “A cabby told me about it. I started to have some fun with him, and he told me to ‘give over on the spoof.’[…]”
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    computingengineeringmathematicsAn act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.

    • Don't click anything on that website! That whole site is a spoof! Call IT right now.
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    A light parody.

    • On Broadway, where it opened in 1949, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a spoof of the madcap Twenties which gave Carol Channing her first starring role; on the screen, it was an up-to-date spoof of sex which gave Marilyn Monroe her first starring role in a musical.
    • The final piece of the country puzzle is found at the corner of Brisbane Street and Kable Avenue, where the Hands of Fame cornerstone bears the palm-prints of more country greats. A glorious spoof, the Noses of Fame memorial, can be savoured over a beer at the Tattersalls Hotel on Peel Street.
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    historicalA drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.

    • The British journalist and author Richard Boston supplies an illustrative example of a drinking game once commonly played in British public houses but which has since faded from use: The game Spoof involves three or more players concealing between zero and three coins or similar small objects in a clenched fist that they hold in front of their body or place on the bar counter or table. Players are then prompted to correctly guess the total number of coins held by all players. As the game progresses, correct guesses allow players to drop out until the final round, in which the "loser," determined by making an incorrect guess, is punished by being required to buy the next round of drinks.
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    Nonsense.

    • I think you used the expression that you came out because people at home were not aware whether it was "spoof" or whether it really could be carried into effect?—A large number of people at home thought it was "spoof."
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    mathematicssciencesA constructed number or solution that saitisfies a set of conditions only when one of its rules are relaxed.

spoofadj詞源 1/spuːf/

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    Fake, hoax.

    • His most recent art project, 'Consuming Desire', explored men's relationship with pornography, using invisible art strategies (a spoof sex shop and a spoof porn CD-ROM), media interventions (TV/radio and press exposure), and therapeutic work with men addicted to pornography.
    • Despite appearances, Hajime Furukawa's wacky I Don't Like Friday was never aimed at children, but ran as a spoof sex-education English course in Business Jump.

spoofverb詞源 1/spuːf/

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    To gently satirize.

    • Her [Jean Harlow's] best film is generally considered to be Bombshell (1933), in which she spoofed her own career as a Hollywood sex goddess.
    • [T]he ensemble [of From A to Z] included […] Elliott Reid spoofing television coverage of a political convention, Kelly Brown trying out another of those nostalgic soft-shoe numbers, and so on. The first-act finale observed a venerable revue tradition by spoofing a current hit show; From A to Z chose The Sound of Music.
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    To deceive.

    • Bandy is a few miles from Duffersville—how many I won't say, because when, on local information, I told Ebsworth three and he walked it, he declared he had been deliberately spoofed, and went about vowing reprisals.
    • Amidst surroundings thus happily suggesting the idyllic and pastoral associations of Arcady, is an unpretending booth, the placards on which announce it to be the temporary resting-place of the "Far-famed Adepts of Thibet," who are there for a much-needed change, after a "3500 years' residence in the Desert of Gobi." There is also a solemn warning that "it is impossible to spoof a Mahatma."
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    computingengineeringmathematicsTo falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes.

    • The fraudsters convincingly spoofed a Microsoft webpage and then invited their victims to click various links found there.
    • However, MULTOPS assumes that packet rates between two hosts are proportional and the IP addresses are not spoofed.

spoofnoun詞源 2/spʊf/

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    slangSemen.

    • ‘Holy-Jesus-fuckin’-Christ! I’m comin’! I’m shootin’ me bolt! I’m gonna fill ya twat with spoof!’

spoofverb詞源 2/spʊf/

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    slangTo ejaculate, to come.

    • [T]he release of semen from the penis predominantly symbolizes a forceful masculine operation, an orgasmic ‘rush’ – ejaculate refers to a sudden happening, an ejection – while the ‘loss’ of blood during menstruation is viewed as a more or less passive occurrence. Even the metaphors employed to depict these two aspects of corporeality serve to situate them on differently gendered poles. Man ‘spoofs off’ or ‘shoots his load’, while woman ‘gets her visitor’, ‘has got her monthly’.

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