Mock
adj, name, noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level
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 the act of mocking or ridiculing wordnet
- 3 Mockery; the act of mocking.
"Fooles make a mocke at ſinne: but among the righteous there is fauour."
- 4 Ellipsis of mock examination. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam."
- 5 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."
- 1 To mimic, to simulate.
"To see the life as lively mocked as ever / Still sleep mocked death."
- 2 treat with contempt wordnet
- 3 To create an artistic representation of. rare
"[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 imitate with mockery and derision wordnet
- 5 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."
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- 6 To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
"The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!"
- 7 To create a mockup or prototype of. transitive
"They can also mock other integration points such as backend, database, or any other external resource."
- 1 Imitation, not genuine; fake. not-comparable
"mock leather"
- 1 constituting a copy or imitation of something wordnet
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"The future pilot is trained in a mock cockpit."
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”).
* As an English surname, related to Old English muga (“stack of hay”), or alternatively from the verb mock. * As a German surname, spelling variant of Maag. Also from a derivative of the source of "heap" above; compare German Low German Muck. * As a Dutch surname, from Middle Dutch mocke (“wanton woman, slut”) and perhaps West Flemish mokke (“fat child”), also related to the sense of heap above.