scoff
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English scof/skof, of Scandinavian origin. Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse skaup, Danish skuffelse(noun)/skuffe(verb) and Old High German scoph.
Noun
scoff (plural scoffs)
- Derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
- Shakespeare
- With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- 'I believe you've killed that constable in the exercise of his duty, Sir; the man's dead,' said Lowe, sternly.
'Another gloss on my text; why invade me like housebreakers?' said Dangerfield with a grim scoff.
- 1852, The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)
- There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […]
- Shakespeare
- An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
- Cowper
- The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.
- Cowper
Synonyms
- (derision, ridicule): derision, ridicule
- See also Thesaurus:ridicule
Translations
derision; ridicule; mockery
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object of scorn, mockery, or derision
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Verb
scoff (third-person singular simple present scoffs, present participle scoffing, simple past and past participle scoffed)
- (intransitive) To jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision.
- Goldsmith
- Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
- Goldsmith
- (transitive) To mock; to treat with scorn.
Synonyms
Translations
to jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision
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Etymology 2
A variant, attested since the mid 19th century, of scaff, of uncertain origin.[1][2] Compare scarf (“eat quickly”).
Noun
scoff (countable and uncountable, plural scoffs)
- (South Africa and British Army slang) Food.
Translations
food
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Verb
scoff (third-person singular simple present scoffs, present participle scoffing, simple past and past participle scoffed)
Synonyms
Translations
to eat food quickly
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to eat
See also
References
- ^ “scoff”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “scoff”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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