Mock /(?)/
Mock
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Mocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Mocking
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To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death.
Mocking marriage with a dame of France.
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To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.
Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
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To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.
He will not . . . Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
Mock
v. i.
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To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
She had mocked at his proposal.
Mock
n.
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An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
Fools make a mock at sin.
- Imitation; mimicry. [R.]
Mock
a.
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Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
That superior greatness and mock majesty.
Phrases & Compounds
- Mock bishop's weed
- a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places.
- Mock heroic
- burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem.
- Mock lead
- See Blende (a).
- Mock nightingale
- the European blackcap.
- Mock orange
- a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. Philadelphus coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless.
- Mock sun
- See Parhelion.
- Mock turtle soup
- a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup.
- Mock velvet
- a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.