Mock heroic
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mock \Mock\, a.
Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed;
sham.
[1913 Webster]
That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator.
[1913 Webster]
{Mock bishop's weed} (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous
herbs ({Discopleura}) growing in wet places.
{Mock heroic}, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic
poem.
{Mock lead}. See {Blende} (
a ).
{Mock nightingale} (Zool.), the European blackcap.
{Mock orange} (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs
({Philadelphus}), with showy white flowers in panicled
cymes. {Philadelphus coronarius}, from Asia, has fragrant
flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless.
{Mock sun}. See {Parhelion}.
{Mock turtle soup}, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or
other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle
soup.
{Mock velvet}, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See
{Mockado}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "mock heroic":
Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian,
Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, broad, bucolic, burlesque, comic,
comical, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, elegiac, epic,
farcical, heroic, idyllic, narrative, pastoral, poetic,
poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic,
poetlike, rhapsodic, runic, sapphic, skaldic, slapstick,
tragicomic
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