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mock verb. LME.
[Old French mo(c)quer (mod. se moquer de laugh at) deride, jeer, from Proto-Romance base repr. also by Italian dial. moka, Spanish mueca grimace, Portuguese moca derision.]
verb trans. Hold up to ridicule; deride with scornful words or gestures; scoff at. LME.
T. Gray These hated walls that seem to mock my shame. J. Wilson A fiend..Come here to mock..My dying agony.
b. Defy, flout. Now rare. M16.
verb intrans.
a. Use ridicule; act or speak so as to show scorn; jeer, scoff. (Foll. by at, with.) LME.
G. Harris The jangling of the keys at his waist seemed to mock at him.
b. Jest, trifle. LME-E17.
verb trans. Deceive, delude, befool; tantalize, disappoint. LME.
verb trans.
a. Ridicule by imitation; mimic contemptuously. L16.
S. Hastings Mocking everything and everybody in her witty..high-pitched way.
b. Simulate, make a false pretence of. rare (Shakes.). L16-E17.
verb trans. Foll. by up: make a mock-up of; imitate, contrive. E20.
mockable adjective E17.
mockingly adverb in a mocking manner M16.