Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
subject to laughter or ridicule;
- Example: "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"- Example: "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"- Example: "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"[syn: ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
jest at
v 1: subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed
the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun
at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted
the professor at his 60th birthday" [syn: ridicule,
roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib,
make fun, poke fun]