caricaturist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an artist or writer who creates caricatures by exaggerating distinctive features for comic, critical, or satirical effect

   The newspaper's caricaturist gave the mayor an enormous hat and a tiny briefcase.

Formed from caricature + the agent suffix -ist. Caricature entered English through French from Italian caricatura, from caricare ("to load or exaggerate"), so a caricaturist figuratively loads a subject's notable features.

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