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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To mock at or treat with derision.
  2. v. To show or express derision or scorn.
  3. n. An expression of derision or scorn.
  4. v. To eat (food) quickly and greedily.
  5. v. To eat greedily.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An expression of contempt, derision, or mocking scorn; a taunt; a gibe; a flout.
  2. n. An object of scoffing or scorn; a mark for derision; a butt.
  3. To speak jeeringly or derisively; manifest mockery, derision, or ridicule; utter contemptuous or taunting language; mock; deride: generally with at before the object.
  4. Synonyms Gibe, Jeer, etc. See sneer.
  5. To treat with derision or scorn; mock at; ridicule; deride.
  6. To eat hastily; devour.
  7. n. Food; “grub.”
  8. To steal; carry off.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
  2. n. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
  3. v. To jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision.
  4. n. South Africa Food.
  5. v. UK To eat food quickly.
  6. v. South Africa To eat.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
  2. n. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
  3. v. To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
  4. v. To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. treat with contemptuous disregard
  2. v. laugh at with contempt and derision
  3. n. showing your contempt by derision

Etymologies

  1. From Afrikaans. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English scoffen, from scof, mockery, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish skof, jest, teasing.Alteration of obsolete scaff. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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