[f. LAMPOON v. + -ER1.] One who lampoons.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal (1697), p. lix. How few Lampooners are there now living, who are capable of this Duty.
1779–81. Johnson, L. P., Pope, Wks. IV. 77. A lampooner, who scattered his ink without fear or decency.
1862. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), IV. xxxiii. 103. Augustus had the good sense to bear with temper the virulence of clandestine lampooners.
1879. Sala, Paris Herself Again (1880), II. xxv. 359. The stern Republican, the unsparing lampooner of Louis Philippe.
