🎬 Animated film 📰 Funny drawing ✏️ To draw funnily

to cartoon

1 3.2

To draw funny pictures for newspapers or magazines

verb
/kɑrˈtun/

: dibujar caricaturas

A seven-year-old boy (John) sits on the floor, sketching and cartooning on myriad pieces of paper.

Examples

I cartoon humorous scenes for our school newspaper.
Are you cartooning me?

Trespass (2011)
So using that system they, I'll cartoon it out and then I'll show you the data.
In other words, the objective is to cartoon with caricaturing.

Blog text (16)
If you're thinking of someone drawing a cartoon, they're going to draw a cartoon and then show you the image they've drawn.
She loves to cartoon funny characters and share them online.
After lunch, he decided to cartoon a funny comic about his favorite superhero.

Synonyms

to caricature

vsto cartoon

7 6.6

To draw or act like someone while making their features bigger to be funny

is a more general humorous or satirical picture not focused on exaggeration

Compounds

animated cartoon

2 2.3

A film or TV show made from drawings that seem to move

cartoon strip

1 2.5

A series of drawings with short words that tell a joke or story

How Cartoonish

soyjak image

Slang

9.9

caricature

49 5.5

to cartoon

1 3.2

illustration

66 2.8

to photograph

33 3.5

Surface Forms

cartoon infinitive

cartooned past

cartooned past participle

cartooning present participle

cartoons third person singular

Etymology

To cartoon (the verb) comes from the noun and the Italian cartone 'large paper'. To cartoon someone or something means to draw them in a simple, funny way, because cartooning is the act of making drawings on paper.