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Make fun   /meɪk fən/   Listen
Make fun

verb
1.
Subject to laughter or ridicule.  Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast.  "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" , "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"






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"Make fun" Quotes from Famous Books



... pretend that she could still make fun of the events of the evening was too great for Jenny. She threw herself upon the bed, burying ...
— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton

... make fun of you," said he, resuming the conversation as if there had been no interruption. "I was watching the foam the Osprey makes in her speed, which certainly burns blue. See the flashing sparks! now that all the red fades from the west, they glow in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various

... the worst side of things, "we'll have to go back to town like dogs with their tails between their legs, and have all the other fellows make fun ...
— The Boy Scouts of Lenox - Or The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain • Frank V. Webster

... mad! They would make fun of you; keep your place. Besides, it is more becoming for a ...
— Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert

... put it on when I went out, and when I got after that fellow and took it back, I was simply getting somebody else's watch!" Then you hold out both watches to her, and laugh again. Everybody laughs, and crowds round you to examine the watches, and you make fun and crack jokes at your own expense all the time, and pretty soon old Bemis says, "Why, this is MY watch, NOW!" and you ...
— The Garotters • William D. Howells


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