scoffing
Meaning of scoffing
- contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something.
a scoffing cabin crew tells her there's no shower on the plane
- contemptuous ridicule or mockery.
he had to overcome the scoffing of theoretical physicists
- speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.
Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films
‘You, a scientist?’ he scoffed
Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin.
verb, gerund or present participle- eat (something) quickly and greedily.
he can scoff a cannelloni faster than you can drink a pint
late 18th century (as a verb): originally a variant of Scots and dialect scaff . The noun is via Afrikaans from Dutch schoft ‘quarter of a day, work shift’, (by extension) ‘meal’.
Information about scoffing
- The plural form of scoffing is: scoffings.
- Languages in which scoffing is used:
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Hyphenation of scoffing
scoff-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- scoffing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
scoffing synonyms
Meaning jeer:
Meaning tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner:
Meaning express contempt for; ridicule:
Meaning subject to contemptuous and dismissive language or behaviour:
Meaning feel or express contempt or disdain for:
Meaning order or allow to leave; send away:
Meaning dismiss (someone or something) as unimportant:
Meaning provoke or challenge (someone) with insulting remarks:
Meaning make fun of or attempt to provoke (a person or animal) in a playful way:
Meaning give a decorative effect to (a painted surface) by applying paint, typically of a different colour, with a rag:
Meaning put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it:
Meaning eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly:
Meaning eat, drink, or ingest (food or drink):
Meaning eat or drink (something) greedily:
Meaning eat (something) hurriedly and noisily:
Meaning fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket:
Meaning eat food enthusiastically or greedily:
Meaning pull or knock down (a building):
Meaning go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:
Meaning swallow (food) hastily or greedily:
Meaning move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance:
Meaning eat a large amount of (food) greedily:
Meaning breathe in (air, gas, smoke, etc.):
Meaning swallow (something) greedily:
Words that rhyme with scoffing
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