The corpus record

χλευ-ασμός

chleuasmos · ὁ

irony, mockery, piece of impertinence

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Where it lives

Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

irony

= χλευασία, D. 18.85, Plb. 18.6.5, Phld. Herc. 1457.9 (pl.), etc.; μετὰ χλευασμοῦ Plb. 8.6.5; ἐπὶ χλευασμῷ Plu. Aet.Gr. 2.277c; as a figure of speech, irony, Anon. Fig. p.213S.

2 mockery, piece of impertinence

mockery, χ. εἶναι τὸ χρῆμα ἡγούμενος Plu. Pomp. 36; piece of impertinence, Id. Arat. 39.

In the wild

χλευασμὸν · chleuasmon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1336)
χλευασμὸν · chleuasmon Septuaginta, Jeremias 20
χλευασμὸς · chleuasmos Septuaginta, Psalmi 78

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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