mocker

/ ˈmɒkə /

noun

1. clothing

verb

1. dressed up

Word History and Origins

Origin of mocker¹

of unknown origin

Example Sentences

In the first, Hackman’s local sheriff, Little Bill Daggett, already cemented in our brains as vicious, reveals himself to be a shrewd mocker of the written word as well.

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“Not wishing to put the mockers on Cameron Norrie, but when did GB last have three men in the last 32 of Wimbledon, or any grand slam for that matter?”

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Life itself, then, could affront and ridicule and even torment the provocateur: the mocker brutally mocked by personal reality.

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As William Hazlitt, the 18th-century essayist and celebrated mocker of Wordsworth might have said, disbelief is the new spirit of the age.

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“There's a quote in the book that goes something like, ‘although a great mocker of emotions, he never felt one of his own,” Skarsgard said.

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