scoff

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.

An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.

[T]he scoff of wither'd age and beardless youth […]

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.

To mock; to treat with scorn.

Food.

The act of eating.

Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […]