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Scoff is defined as to mock or to scorn.

(verb)

An example of to scoff is to make fun of someone's idea.

The definition of a scoff is an expression of doubt or a mocking comment.

(noun)

An example of a scoff is something said that shows doubt about someone's idea.

See scoff in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an expression of mocking contempt, scorn, or derision; jeer
an object of mocking contempt, scorn, etc.

Origin: ME scof, prob. < Scand: akin to OE scop, singer, OHG skof, poem, ridicule: for IE base see shove

transitive verb

to mock at or deride

intransitive verb

to show mocking contempt, scorn, or derision, esp. by language; jeer

Related Forms:

scoffer noun
scoffingly adverb

noun

Chiefly Brit., Slang food or rations

Origin: < dial. scaff < ?

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to eat or devour
to plunder or seize

See scoff in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb scoffed, scoff·ing, scoffs

verb, transitive

To mock at or treat with derision.

verb, intransitive

To show or express derision or scorn.

noun

An expression of derision or scorn.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English scoffen

Origin: , from scof, mockery

Origin: , probably of Scandinavian origin

Origin: ; akin to Danish skof, jest, teasing

Related Forms:

scoffˈer noun

scoffˈing·ly adverb

verb scoffed, scoff·ing, scoffs
Slang

verb, transitive

To eat (food) quickly and greedily.

verb, intransitive

To eat greedily.

Origin:

Origin: Alteration of obsolete scaff

Related Forms:

scoffˈer noun

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