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Scoff
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- 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."
- 2 Food. British-Army, Newfoundland, South-Africa, countable, slang, uncountable
- 3 showing your contempt by derision wordnet
- 4 An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
"[T]he scoff of wither'd age and beardless youth […]"
- 5 The act of eating. countable, slang, uncountable
"Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […]"
- 1 To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision. intransitive
"Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray."
- 2 To eat food quickly. British, Newfoundland, slang
"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."
- 3 treat with contemptuous disregard wordnet
- 4 To mock; to treat with scorn. transitive
- 5 To eat. British-Army, Newfoundland, South-Africa, slang
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- 6 laugh at with contempt and derision wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English scof, skof, probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Old Norse skaup, Old Danish skof, Old Frisian skof (“insult, shame”), and Old High German scoph.
From Middle English scof, skof, probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Old Norse skaup, Old Danish skof, Old Frisian skof (“insult, shame”), and Old High German scoph.
A variant, attested since the mid 19th century, of scaff, of uncertain origin. Compare scarf (“eat quickly”).
A variant, attested since the mid 19th century, of scaff, of uncertain origin. Compare scarf (“eat quickly”).
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