mock

[ mok ]

verb (used with object)

1. to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.

   Synonyms: lampoon, parody, josh, tease, chaff, gibe, ridicule, scorn, deride

2. to ridicule by mimicry of action or speech; mimic derisively.
3. to mimic, imitate, or counterfeit.
4. to challenge; defy:

   His actions mock convention.

5. to deceive, delude, or disappoint.

   Synonyms: mislead, fool, dupe, cheat

verb (used without object)

1. to use ridicule or derision; scoff; jeer (often followed by at ).

noun

1. a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
2. something mocked or derided; an object of derision.
3. an imitation; counterfeit; fake.
4. Shipbuilding.
   1. a hard pattern representing the surface of a plate with a warped form, upon which the plate is beaten to shape after furnacing.
   2. Also called mock mold. bed ( def 23 ).

adjective

1. feigned; not real; sham:

   a mock battle.

verb phrase

1. to build a mock-up of.

mock

/ mɒk /

verb

1. whenintr, often foll by at to behave with scorn or contempt (towards); show ridicule (for)
2. tr to imitate, esp in fun; mimic
3. tr to deceive, disappoint, or delude
4. tr to defy or frustrate

   the team mocked the visitors' attempt to score

noun

1. the act of mocking
2. a person or thing mocked
3. a counterfeit; imitation
4. informal.
   often plural (in England and Wales) the school examinations taken as practice before public examinations

adjective

1. sham or counterfeit
2. serving as an imitation or substitute, esp for practice purposes

   a mock battle

   mock finals

Derived Forms

• ˈmockingly, adverb
• ˈmockable, adjective
• ˈmocker, noun
• ˈmocking, nounadjective

Other Words From

• mock·a·ble adjective
• mock·er noun
• un·mocked adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mock¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English mokken, from Middle French mocquer

Word History and Origins

Origin of mock¹

C15: from Old French mocquer

Synonym Study

See ridicule.

Example Sentences

Customers nonetheless took to Twitter to vent about the latest delays, and mock Robinhood’s performance.

From Fortune

It was transformed into a “mock marketplace… with everything from Andy Warhol shopping bags screen printed with Campbell’s Soup cans, to Tom Wesselman plastic turkeys to illustrate the ideals of the American consumption,” she says.

From Eater

Four months after NASA chose three teams as finalists, one of the teams, led by Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin, on Thursday delivered a 40-foot tall mock-up lander to the space agency for testing.

From Fortune

Locals wound up crowding the park and shouting obscenities and mocking officials.

From Voice of San Diego

Thompson mocked up multiple versions and tested how people interpreted them with help from the Science News staff plus some college roommates.

From Science News

She jumps on his back, mock-choking him and covering his eyes.

From The Daily Beast

Satirists are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.

From The Daily Beast

He's so white he's almost mock-white, and so are his jerky, long-necked, mechanical-man movements.

From The Daily Beast

Arab standup comics, and even an Iraqi TV show, regularly mock ISIS mercilessly.

From The Daily Beast

Dogs were used in the interrogations, and the accused were subjected to mock executions.

From The Daily Beast

For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.

From Project Gutenberg

Now men laughed at him, pointed to him with their fingers, and made their children mock and hoot the penniless insolvent.

From Project Gutenberg

Gone, too, is the hamlet of Garratt, whose mock elections of a Mayor caused such convivial excitement a century ago.

From Project Gutenberg

Even the mock hero, the good young man who tries to raise himself, has something comic in him.

From Project Gutenberg

Dispense with ornaments altogether rather than wear mock jewelry.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• deride
• insult
• parody
• scoff
• scorn
• taunt
• tease