SCOFF meaning: Mock or deride with contempt

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word scoff:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

scoff: Merriam-Webster.com
scoff, scoff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
scoff, scoff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
scoff: Collins English Dictionary
scoff: Vocabulary.com
Scoff, scoff: Wordnik
scoff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
scoff: Wiktionary
scoff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
scoff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
scoff: Infoplease Dictionary
scoff: Dictionary.com
scoff (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
scoff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Scoff (song), Scoff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Scoff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
scoff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
scoff: Rhymezone
scoff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
scoff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
scoff: Free Dictionary
scoff: Mnemonic Dictionary
scoff: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
scoff: Dictionary/thesaurus

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scoff: Legal dictionary

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scoff: Encyclopedia

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scoff: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)

scoff, scoff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
scoff: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
Scoff: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
Scoff, scoff: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
▸ noun:  An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To mock; to treat with scorn.
▸ noun:  (Newfoundland, South Africa and British Army slang) Food.
▸ noun:  (slang) The act of eating.
▸ verb:  (British, Newfoundland, slang) To eat food quickly.
▸ verb:  (Newfoundland, South Africa and British Army slang) To eat.

Similar:

jeer, mockery, flout, barrack, gibe, scoffery, counterscoff, derision, taunt, sneering, more...

Opposite:

believe, trust, credit

Phrases:

scoff at, scoff laugh, offended scoff, to scoff, scoff amused, more...

Adjectives:

many, bitter, longer, silent, contemptuous, cruel, quaint, good, pure, little, open

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