mock pennyroyal

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Origin of mock pennyroyal

First recorded in 1855–60

She jumps on his back, mock-choking him and covering his eyes.
Sia and Shia LaBeouf’s Pedophilia Nontroversy Over ‘Elastic Heart’|Marlow Stern|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Satirists are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.
Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He's so white he's almost mock-white, and so are his jerky, long-necked, mechanical-man movements.
The Stacks: Pauline Kael's Talking Heads Obsession|Pauline Kael|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Arab standup comics, and even an Iraqi TV show, regularly mock ISIS mercilessly.
Middle East Goes Monty Python on ISIS|Dean Obeidallah|October 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Dogs were used in the interrogations, and the accused were subjected to mock executions.
The Myth of the Central Park Five|Edward Conlon|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Now men laughed at him, pointed to him with their fingers, and made their children mock and hoot the penniless insolvent.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Gone, too, is the hamlet of Garratt, whose mock elections of a Mayor caused such convivial excitement a century ago.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries|Charles G. Harper
Even the mock hero, the good young man who tries to raise himself, has something comic in him.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Dispense with ornaments altogether rather than wear mock jewelry.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness|Florence Hartley