mock

[mok]

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verb (used with object)

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

to ridicule by mimicry of action or speech; mimic derisively.

to mimic, imitate, or counterfeit.

to challenge; defy: His actions mock convention.

to deceive, delude, or disappoint.

verb (used without object)

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

noun

a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.

something mocked or derided; an object of derision.

an imitation; counterfeit; fake.

Shipbuilding.

a hard pattern representing the surface of a plate with a warped form, upon which the plate is beaten to shape after furnacing.
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adjective

feigned; not real; sham: a mock battle.

Verb Phrases

mock up, to build a mock-up of.

Origin of mock

1400–50; late Middle English mokken < Middle French mocquer

Related formsmock·a·ble, adjectivemock·er, nounmock·ing·ly, adverbself-mock·ing, adjectiveun·mocked, adjectiveun·mock·ing, adjectiveun·mock·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms for mock

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1. deride; taunt, flout, gibe; chaff, tease. See ridicule. 5. cheat, dupe, fool, mislead.

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Related Words for mocked

tease, taunt, scoff, insult, deride, scorn, parody, imitate, lampoon, satirize, belie, defy, betray, caricature, buffoon, jape, jeer, needle, hoot, flout

Examples from the Web for mocked

Contemporary Examples of mocked

Advocacy groups are formed, advocacy groups are mocked, and the debate swirls on—no closer to reaching a conclusion.
Playing Violent Video Games Makes You a Better Person, Study Says
Kevin Zawacki
July 4, 2014
First, George Will mocked the “Bring Back Our Girls” hashtag as an “exercise in self esteem.”
Go Away, Coulter and Limbaugh; Hashtagging Is Better Than Snarking
Dean Obeidallah
May 14, 2014
Viagra and Cialis are two of the most mocked medicines on the market.
Viagra Promising for Muscular Dystrophy Patients
Emily Shire
May 9, 2014
The delightfully trippy television special has been mocked as feminist propaganda disguised as entertainment.
‘Free to Be…You and Me’ Did Not Emasculate Men
Emily Shire
March 11, 2014
When he learned his official diagnosis—acute compartment syndrome—he mocked it a little.
Reporter Miles O’Brien Lost an Arm but None of His Admirable Spirit or Wit
Kevin Bleyer
March 2, 2014

Historical Examples of mocked

His tea-pot and cream-jug were Queen Anne silver, heirlooms at which he mocked.
The Incomplete Amorist
E. Nesbit
It mocked and jeered at them with sparkling waves of warmth.
Slaves of Mercury
Nat Schachner
"The Souls" were envied, mocked at, caricatured, by those who were not of them.
A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Or has some demon, as we read of in old tales, mocked me in a magic mirror?
Vivian Grey
Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
"Yes, yes," he mocked her, and his mockery was the most terrible thing of all.
Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini

British Dictionary definitions for mocked

mock

verb

(when intr, often foll by at) to behave with scorn or contempt (towards); show ridicule (for)

(tr) to imitate, esp in fun; mimic

(tr) to deceive, disappoint, or delude

(tr) to defy or frustratethe team mocked the visitors' attempt to score

noun

the act of mocking

a person or thing mocked

a counterfeit; imitation

(often plural) informal (in England and Wales) the school examinations taken as practice before public examinations

adjective (prenominal)

sham or counterfeit

serving as an imitation or substitute, esp for practice purposesa mock battle; mock finals

Word Origin for mock

C15: from Old French mocquer

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Word Origin and History for mocked

mock

early 15c., "to deceive;" mid-15c. "make fun of," from Old French mocquer "deride, jeer," of unknown origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *muccare "to blow the nose" (as a derisive gesture), from Latin mucus; or possibly from Middle Dutch mocken "to mumble" or Middle Low German mucken "grumble." Or perhaps simply imitative of such speech. Related: Mocked; mocking; mockingly. Replaced Old English bysmerian. Sense of "imitating," as in mockingbird and mock turtle (1763), is from notion of derisive imitation.

mock

adj.

1540s, from mock, verb and noun. Mock-heroic is attested from 1711; mock-turtle "calf's head dressed to resemble a turtle," is from 1763; as a kind of soup from 1783.

mock

"derisive action or speech," early 15c., from mock (v.).