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.
bed(def 23).

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 mocker

make-believe, bogus, phony, simulated, dummy, ersatz, pseudo, pretended, mimic, feigned, imitation, put-on, counterfeit, forged, substitute, sham, faked, apish, fraudulent, hokey

Examples from the Web for mocker

Historical Examples of mocker

It had mocked Reuben, and it had made her seem as if she were the mocker.
Aunt Rachel
David Christie Murray
They buried them together, man and mocker, and went silently on toward the hill.
Space Prison
Tom Godwin
How true then are the words of the Bible: "Wine is a mocker."
The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction
Winfield S. Hall
He was not a mocker, or a leveller, or a satirist, or an atheist.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon
John Lord, A.M.
But I'm a doubter, and a mocker, and a failure, and Phillida knows it.
The Faith Doctor
Edward Eggleston

British Dictionary definitions for mocker

mocker

noun

clothing

verb (tr)

all mockered up dressed up

Word Origin for mocker

of unknown origin

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 mocker

late 15c., agent noun from mock (v.).

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.).