Scoff

Quick meaning: Scoff is a noun meaning A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.

Meaning

A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.

More Meanings

1. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
2. (intransitive) To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.
3. (transitive) To mock; to treat with scorn.
4. (Newfoundland, South Africa and British Army slang) Food.
5. (British, Newfoundland, slang) To eat food quickly.
6. (Newfoundland, South Africa and British Army slang) To eat.
7. (slang) The act of eating.

Example Sentences

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

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

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.

There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […]

Word Forms

• scoffs
• scoffing
• scoffed

Synonyms for scoff

Depending on context, synonyms include derision, ridicule, mockery, katagelasticism, sneer, gird.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jeer, jeering, mockery, flout, barrack, gibe.

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