The quality or property of corroding or being corrosive, of eating away or disintegrating; acrimony.
Some property characteristic of a corrosive substance, as its taste.
Such property in some immaterial agent.
A satirical work.
A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change or highlighting a shortcoming in the work of another. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.