- (a.) Resembling iron taste, hardness or other physical property.
- (n.) Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
- (n.) A sort of humor, ridicule or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words.
- (a.) Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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