unscoffed

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ scoffed

Adjective[edit]

unscoffed (not comparable)

  1. Not scoffed or jeered at; unmocked; often with at.
    • 1606, John Marston, The Wonder of Women, or The Tragedy of Sophonisba:
      Thy shame unrumoured, and thy suit unscoffed
    • 1848, Henry Whitelock Torrens, Madame de Malguet: A Tale of 1820, volume 3, page 219:
      [] who is to officiate here, do I ask? who is certain of lifting up his voice in the sacrifice of the mass anywhere in this land unscoffed at and unreviled?
  2. (slang) Uneaten.
    • 2007, Kate Charles, Secret Sins:
      With Peter in residence, there wasn't likely to be much left unscoffed in the kitchen; []