[syn: mocking, teasing, quizzical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mock \Mock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mocked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mocking.] [F. moquer, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. mocken
to mumble, G. mucken, OSw. mucka.]
1. To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt,
or derision; to deride by mimicry.
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To see the life as lively mocked as ever
Still sleep mocked death. --Shak.
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Mocking marriage with a dame of France. --Shak.
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2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
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Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. --1 Kings
xviii. 27.
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Let not ambition mock their useful toil. --Gray.
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3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as,
to mock expectation.
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Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. --Judg. xvi.
13.
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He will not . . .
Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
--Milton.
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Syn: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint.
See Deride.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mocking \Mock"ing\, a.
Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision;
mimicking; derisive.
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Mocking thrush (Zool.), any species of the genus
Harporhynchus, as the brown thrush (Harporhynchus
rufus).
Mocking wren (Zool.), any American wren of the genus
Thryothorus, esp. Thryothorus Ludovicianus.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mocking
adj 1: abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule;
"derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking
smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn:
derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting]
2: playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a
somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell
[syn: mocking, teasing, quizzical]