scoffery

English

Etymology

scoff +‎ -ery

Noun

scoffery (usually uncountable, plural scofferies)

1. The act of scoffing; mockery.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     King Henrie the fift in his beginning thought it a meere scofferie to pursue anie fallow deere with hounds or greihounds

References

• “scoffery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.