"Charivari" is a word in ENGLISH
A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles,
tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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v. /MANG-:-EN/ to mock, insult, affront, villify; to belittle. Ab-abien da ta napanglaw. They are belittling him because he is …
Read the complete definitionRelation of direction toward an object or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a …
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