A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade. "The Grecian wits,
who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the
life of man." (Dryden)
Origin: It. Pasquino a mutilated statue at Rome,
set up against the
wall of the
seat of the Orsini; so called from a witty cobbler or tailor, around whose
shop the statue was dug up. On
this statue it was customary to
paste satiric papers.
Source: Websters Vocabulary