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scoff
UK /skɒf/ US /skɔːf/
noun 4verb 4
Collocations
4ADJ.
better, creative, easy, processed, quick
VERB + SCOFF
become, came, don't, engineers, mask, tend
SCOFF + NOUN
esperanto, it's, people
ADV.
momentarily, terrifyingly
Definitions
noun
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.
2
An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
[T]he scoff of wither'd age and beardless youth […]
verb
1
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.
2
To mock; to treat with scorn.
noun
1
Food.
2
The act of eating.
Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […]
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Idioms & Phrases
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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
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"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
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There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […]
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […]
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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.
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