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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To treat with ridicule or contempt; deride.
  2. v. To mimic, as in sport or derision. See Synonyms at ridicule.
  3. v. To imitate; counterfeit.
  4. v. To frustrate the hopes of; disappoint.
  5. v. To express scorn or ridicule; jeer: They mocked at the idea.
  6. n. The act of mocking.
  7. n. Mockery; derision: said it merely in mock.
  8. n. An object of scorn or derision.
  9. n. An imitation or a counterfeit.
  10. adj. Simulated; false; sham: a mock battle.
  11. adv. In an insincere or pretending manner: mock sorrowful.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To treat derisively or contemptuously; make sport of by mimicry, ridicule, or sarcasm; deride.
  2. To simulate, imitate, or mimic; produce a semblance of.
  3. To deceive by simulation or pretense: disappoint with false expectation; fool.
  4. To set at naught; defy.
  5. Synonyms Ridicule, etc. (see taunt), jeer at, gibe at, take off, make game of.
  6. Mimic, Ape, etc. See imitate.
  7. To delude.
  8. To use ridicule or derision; gibe or jeer; flout: often with at.
  9. n. Derisive or contemptuous action or speech; also, a bringing into contempt or ridicule.
  10. n. That which one derides or mocks.
  11. n. Mimicry; imitation.
  12. n. A trifle.
  13. n. Mock turtle.
  14. Feigned; counterfeit; spurious: as, mock heroism; mock modesty; a mock battle.
  15. Having close resemblance, as if imitative.
  16. n. A root or stump.
  17. n. A tuft of sedge.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An imitation, usually with the connotation that it's one of lesser quality.
  2. n. Mockery, the act of mocking.
  3. n. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
  4. v. To mimic, to simulate.
  5. v. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
  6. v. To tantalise, and disappoint (the hopes of).
  7. adj. imitation, not genuine (mock turtle soup, mock leather); fake

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
  2. v. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
  3. v. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize.
  4. v. To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
  5. n. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
  6. n. rare Imitation; mimicry.
  7. adj. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. treat with contempt
  2. v. imitate with mockery and derision
  3. adj. constituting a copy or imitation of something
  4. n. the act of mocking or ridiculing

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English mokken, from Middle French mocquer ("to deride, jeer"), from Middle Dutch mocken ("to mumble") or Middle Low German mucken ("to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened"), both from Old Saxon *mokkian, *mukkian ("to low, mumble"), from Proto-Germanic *mukkjanan, *mūhanan (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Old High German firmucken ("to be stupid"), Modern German mucksen ("to utter a word"), Dutch dialectal mokkel ("kiss"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby
    Another winter,
    And here am I,
    By the side of the stove,
    that a woman might dream of me,
    That I might bury in her breast
    A secret she would not mock;
    Dreaming that in my fading years
    I might spring forth as light,
    And she would say:
    This light is mine;
    Let no woman draw near it.

    - Buland al-Haidari, 'Old Age'. Sep 16, 2008

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