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scoff(dictionary)

scoff(1) (iou)



scoff noun1. ME.
[Perh. of Scandinavian origin. Cf. early mod.Danish skof, skuf jest, mockery, skuffe mock, jest, also (as now) deceive, disappoint, rel. to Old Frisian skof mockery, Old High German skof, skopf poet. Cf. SCOP.]
a. Contemptuous ridicule, scorn, mockery. Now rare or obsolete. ME.
T. Taylor As in nicknames taken up in scoffe.
b. A taunt, an expression of scorn or mockery. L16.
John Boyle The scoffs..of Swift..more venomously dangerous, than the wounds of a common serpent.
An object of contempt, ridicule, or scorn. M17.
Ld Macaulay The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier.