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▪ I. scoffer1|ˈskɒfə(r), -ɔː-|
Also 6 scoffar.
[f. scoff v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who scoffs. Const. at; also (now rarely) of. Often spec., one who scoffs at religion or morality.
1470–85Malory Arthur x. xlvii. 488 He was a good knyȝt but he was a scoffer and a Iaper. 1540Palsgr. Acolastus iv. ii. S ij, The order or felowshyp of scoffers, or common gesters. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. i. (Arb.) 33 In yougthe also they be readie scoffers. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. v. 62 Cry the man mercy, loue him, take his offer, Foule is most foule, being foule to be a scoffer. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. ⁋16 We might also be charged (by scoffers) with some vnequall dealing towards a great number of good English wordes. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 190 It is also naturall to the French, to be a great scoffer; for men of light and unsteady braines, have commonly sudden and sharpe conceits. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 195 He closed with the Presbyterians, notwithstanding he had before..been a scoffer of them. a1768Secker Serm. (1770) I. 209 They have..become Railers and Scoffers at it [Christianity]. 1790G. Walker Serm. II. xxx. 327 The impious scoffer of his Maker, of providence, of religion and of a future world. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. ii. 484 This dull product of a scoffer's pen. 1852T. Parker Ten Serm. Relig. iv. (1863) 76 The long line of scoffers from Lucian..down to Voltaire. 1853Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. ii. §5 (1873) 52 What would Anaximander or the scoffer of Anaxagoras have said, could he have known what we now know. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 445 To put any other interpretation on his words would be..to give an occasion of triumph to scoffers. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xii. 80 The subject of foolish and brutal jests among the profligate scoffers of his Court.
†2. A jester, buffoon. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 268/1 Scoffer or jestar, gaudissevr. 1540― Acolastus ii. i. H iij b, Take me hardely in all the hast to be bounde prentyse to thy felowshyp or craftes men of scoffars. 1568Withals Dict. 65 a/2 A scoffer, histrio. 1623Cockeram i, Mimicke, a scoffer, a iester.
▪ II. scoffer2 colloq.|ˈskɒfə(r), -ɔː-|
[f. scoff v.2 + -er1.]
One who eats greedily.
1935Amer. Speech X. 20/1 Scoffer, a glutton; one who has no control over his appetite. (Obs.) 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 154 A pair of Hertfordshire 14-year-olds,..when asked about their classmates and invited to set down their epithets for them, promptly came to life and wrote: ‘Phumph, lumber bontts [bonce],..hog, scoffer, flippin kid [etc.]’. 1976Times 21 Aug. 12/6 The scoffers of doughnuts, bananas and raw eggs. |