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adjective

Mocking adj. Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.

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.

verb

Mock v. t. (past & past part. mocked; pres. part. mocking)

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."

To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. "Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud." "Let not ambition mock their useful toil."

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."

Synonyms: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride.

Mock v. i. 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."

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Etymology of 'Mocking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mocking" Quotes from Famous Books

... at the sound of his mocking. He seemed again to become aware of himself. It was interesting to observe the quite visible effort he made to regain his self-control. In a moment he had mastered his excitement, and he turned ...

— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham

... through leaves Blinkt the white morn, sprays grated, and old boughs Whined in the wood. He rose, descended, met The scorner in the castle court, and fain, For hate and loathing, would have past him by; But when Sir Garlon uttered mocking-wise; 'What, wear ye still that same crown-scandalous?' His countenance blackened, and his forehead veins Bloated, and branched; and tearing out of sheath The brand, Sir Balin with a fiery 'Ha! So thou be shadow, here I make thee ghost,' Hard upon helm smote him, and the blade flew Splintering ...

— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

... make an ado about nothing. What have you to bear, I'd like to know, with a roof over your head, and your child fed and clothed? Bear indeed!' and with a low, mocking laugh, Mistress Forrester stumped with her heavy tread up the stairs which led to the upper floor from the further ...

— Penshurst Castle - In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney • Emma Marshall

... mocking tone. "We want that chief and his boy, whom you are harboring in your camp. According to our Indian companion, they own, or know of the hiding-place of, a fortune in plumes. If the plumes are not to be easily reached, we can still hold the chief and boy for a big ransom. ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... song to sing, O! [SHE] Sing me your song, O! [HE] It is sung to the moon By a love-lorn loon, Who fled from the mocking throng, O! It's the song of a merryman, moping mum, Whose soul was sad, whose glance was glum, Who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb, As he sighed for the love of a ladye. Heighdy! heighdy! Misery me - lackadaydee! He sipped no sup, and he craved no crumb, As he ...

— Songs of a Savoyard • W. S. Gilbert

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