irony vs spoof

irony

noun
  • An ironic statement. 

  • Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected. 

  • Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play. 

  • Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. 

  • The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the metal iron. 

  • The food had an irony taste to it. 

spoof

noun
  • An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. 

  • A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held. 

  • A light parody. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • Semen. 

adj
  • Fake, hoax. 

verb
  • To falsify. 

  • To gently satirize. 

  • To ejaculate, to come. 

  • To deceive. 

How often have the words irony and spoof occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )