Anagrams of: PARKINSON

• a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing

• garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement

• acting like a clown or buffoon

• a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

• dress or decorate showily or gaudily

• dress up showily

• similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs

• A socialist who is not wholly communist.

• dress very carefully and in a finicky manner

• put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

• a momentary flash of light

• Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)

• merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

• electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

• a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger

• a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction

• put in motion or move to act

• emit or produce sparks

• acting like a clown or buffoon

• a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

• dress or decorate showily or gaudily

• dress up showily

• United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)

• a slap with the flat of the hand

• give a spanking to; subject to a spanking