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† ˈscoffery Obs. rare. [f. scoff v.1 + -ery, after mockery.] a. A mockery, ridiculous proceeding. b. Mockery, jeering, derision.
1577Harrison England iii. vii. 108 b, King Henrye..thought it a mere scoffery to pursue any fallow Deare with hounds or greyhounds. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. (Arb.) 76 Skelton a sharpe Satirist, but with more rayling and scoffery then became a Poet Lawreat. 1836Fraser's Mag. XIV. 507 With..a scowling scoffery of all the principles which those who gathered together the National Assembly had contemplated. |