scoff

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.

   • VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
   • "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 house-breakers?" said Dangerfield, with a grim scoff.
   • There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […]
2. 2

   An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.

   • [T]he scoff of wither'd age and beardless youth […]
3. 3

   To jeer

   To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.

   • Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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   1. 4

      To mock

      To mock; to treat with scorn.

   2. 5

      Food.

   3. 6

      The act of eating.

      • Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […]
   4. 7

      To eat food quickly.

      • The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.
   5. 8

      To eat.

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