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mock

noun
/mɒk/UK/mɔk/US

Etymology

From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).

  1. derived from *mūg-✻
  2. derived from *mukkijaną✻
  3. derived from *mokkijan✻
  4. derived from mucken
  5. derived from mocken — “to mumble”
  6. derived from mocquer
  7. inherited from mokken

Definitions

  1. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.

    • Is tortured thirst itself too sweet a cup? Gall, and more bitter mocks, shall make it up.

  2. Mockery

    Mockery; the act of mocking.

    • Fooles make a mocke at ſinne: but among the righteous there is fauour.
    • Thus says my king; an if your father's highness Do not, in grant of all demands at large, Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty, He'll call you to so hot an answer of it

  3. Ellipsis of mock examination.

    • He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A mockup or prototype

      A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object, as used in unit testing.

      • You can, if you must, create a mock that derives from a concrete class. The problem is that the resulting class represents a mix of production and mocked behavior, a beast referred to as a partial mock.
      • Mocks replace the objects with which your methods under test collaborate, thus offering a layer of isolation.

    2. To mimic, to simulate.

      • To see the life as lively mocked as ever / Still sleep mocked death.
      • Mocking marriage with a dame of France.

    3. To create an artistic representation of.

      • [I]ts sculptor well those passions read / Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: […]

    4. To make fun of, especially by mimicking

      To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.

      • And it came to paſſe at noone, that Eliiah mocked them, and ſaide, Crie aloud: for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is purſuing, or hee is in a iourney, or peraduenture he ſleepeth, and muſt be awaked.
      • Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

    5. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.

      • The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!
      • "It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."

    6. To create a mockup or prototype of.

      • They can also mock other integration points such as backend, database, or any other external resource.

    7. Imitation, not genuine

      Imitation, not genuine; fake.

      • mock leather
      • mock trial
      • mock turtle-soup

    8. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

mockable, mockage, mocker, mock out, mockworthy, unmocked

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mock. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA