self-parody

noun

Parody of one's own work.

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Meanings

nounself-parody (countable and uncountable, plural self-parodies)

plural self-parodies

  1. countableuncountableParody of one's own work.

    Mr. [Tao] Lin’s is an easy style to mock, and he often seems to be engaging in something that approaches self-parody.

    2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2018
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    Though at first blush the new IFC original series Portlandia may suggest a scathing parody of the notoriously green-to-the-point-of-neurotic Pacific Northwestern cultural hub, the show may actually be a bit closer to “self-parody”.

    2011 January 25, “Portlandia”, in BOMB

Origin

From self- + parody.

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APA

self-parody. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-parody

MLA

“self-parody.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-parody. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-parody,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-parody.

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