filk
Filk musicFilk music.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)Filk music.
Filk song.
(countable, uncountable)In general
(countable, uncountable)A filk song written as a parody of, or in the form of and with reference to, another song (which need not itself be a filk song). Compare verb transitive sense.
Origin
Originally "filk music" was a typo for "folk music" in a never-published essay on the inflOriginally "filk music" was a typo for "folk music" in a never-published essay on the influence of Science Fiction and Fantasy on folk music. Its first known deliberate use was by Karen Kruse Anderson in Die Zeitschrift für Vollständigen Unsinn (The Journal for Utter Nonsense) #774 (June 1953), for a song written by science-fiction author Poul Anderson.
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Forms
plural: filksWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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