Talk:spoof

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups:

• spoof (noun): fa.sf-lovers - 11 May 1981 0657-EDT by Roger H. Goun

  The following is a spoof on, what is known at M.I.T. as, the "Baker House Purity Test."

• spoofs (verb): fa.sf-lovers - 10 Jun 1981 0613-PDT by GEOFF at SRI-CSL

  Already, 200,000 copies of the $2.95 book published by Clarkson N. Potter Inc. of New York are in print, pushing it well past the "cat books" it spoofs.

• spoofs (noun): net.sf-lovers - 20 Feb 1983 by brunix

  Now I don't know who PJF's agent is, and I don't know what politics may have occurred between Vonnegut and PJF or whomever, but it does look odd to me that VotHS would be the only one of several spoofs that PJF kept his name off of.

• spoofing: net.religion - 13 Mar 1983 by uw-june

  Does anyone know anything about the flat earth society? Are they sincere, spoofing or some of each?

• spoofed: net.movies - 1 Jun 1984 by Tom Almy

  Of course, High Anxiety is the definitive spoof (?) since the entire move spoofed Hitchcock's movies.

• spoof's (incorrect plural): soc.culture.indian - 15 Jul 1992 by Arun Simha

  Who can forget the AD-ZAPP competitions which had those great spoof's I can remember only some; (PUERILE STUFF AHEAD...YOU ARE WARNED)

• spoof's (noun): alt.tv.mst3k - 1 Mar 1994 by Wolff "Iguana" Dobson

  The spoof's material was written entirely by Wolff Dobson, and you're welcome to reproduce it as much as you'd like, only if you're planning to profit from it, call CC first and me second.

— Hippietrail 00:15, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Relation to poof?

@Leasnam: concerning this edit that you made, what's the etymological relation between spoof and poof? I'm not really seeing it. — SGconlaw (talk) 22:56, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

earlier than 1889

@Sgconlaw Here's an example from 1887, although it may not fit into our senses exactly. DTLHS (talk) 01:50, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Also 1888. DTLHS (talk) 02:07, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

@DTLHS: perhaps have a look at the OED 1st edition online (see the links at {{R:OED}}) and see if that sense (or those senses) are mentioned? — SGconlaw (talk) 09:52, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Adjective is a bit dubious

Seems like attributive use of the noun. You cannot use it predicatively, for example (*"this claim is spoof"). Equinox ◑ 08:47, 26 May 2024 (UTC)