mockers
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of mockers
C20: perhaps from mock
Example Sentences
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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?”
From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2021
Equal-opportunity mockers Cleese and Idle will be at the Moore Theatre in Seattle on Oct. 26-27, 2016.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2016
Their mockers understood, however, that, as far as most of the country was concerned, the battle of images was the only one that these gun-toting occupiers would be fighting.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2016
This multimedia fluidity is also why, as Grantland noted last year, it’s hopeless to try to out-meme Drake, no matter how hard mockers try: “You can’t invent Draking. Drake’s been Draking for 27 years.”
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2015
And Plato's banquet is full of mockers, cavilling at one another; for I say nothing of the digression about Alcibiades.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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