mimick

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MIM'ICK, verb transitive To imitate or ape for sport; to attempt to excite laughter or derision by acting or speaking like another; to ridicule by imitation. --The walk, the words, the gesture, could supply, The habit mimick and the mien belie.
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