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Grotesque :: Grotesque (n.) A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes..

Antic :: Antic (n.) A grotesque representation.

Mantis :: Mantis (n.) Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina..

Maidmarian :: Maidmarian (n.) The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes..

Bizarre :: Bizarre (a.) Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.

Mask :: Mask (n.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron..

Burlesque :: Burlesque (v. t.) To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language..

Grotesqueness :: Grotesqueness (n.) Quality of being grotesque.

Malapropism :: Malapropism (n.) A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.

Bambocciade :: Bambocciade (n.) A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.

Bull :: Bull (v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility..

Manducus :: Manducus (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage..

Antic :: Antic (a.) Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous.

Antic :: Antic (n.) A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.

Burlesque :: Burlesque (n.) Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.

Grotesquely :: Grotesquely (adv.) In a grotesque manner.

Antimask :: Antimask (n.) A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask..

Gargoyle :: Gargoyle (n.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely..

Anticly :: Anticly (adv.) Oddly; grotesquely.

Guy :: Guy (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot..

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