deridev.
/dɪˈrʌɪd/ 1. transitive. To laugh at in contempt or scorn; to laugh to scorn: to make sport of, mock.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)]
teleeOE
laughOE
bismerc1000
heascenc1000
hethec1175
scornc1175
hokera1225
betell?c1225
scorn?c1225
forhushc1275
to make scorn at, toc1320
boba1382
bemow1388
lakea1400
bobby14..
triflea1450
japec1450
mock?c1450
mowc1485
to make (a) mock at?a1500
to make mocks at?a1500
scrip?a1513
illude1516
delude1526
deride1530
louta1547
to toy with ——1549–62
flout1551
skirp1568
knack1570
to fart against1574
frump1577
bourd1593
geck?a1600
scout1605
subsannate1606
railly1612
explode1618
subsannea1620
dor1655
monkeya1658
to make an ass of (someone)1680
ridicule1680
banter1682
to run one's rig upon1735
fun1811
to get the run upon1843
play1891
to poke mullock at1901
razz1918
flaunt1923
to get (or give) the razoo1926
to bust (a person's) chops1953
wolf1966
pimp1968
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > laugh to scorn
laugheOE
laughOE
bilauhOE
to laugh to scorn (also bismer, hething, hoker)OE
to laugh or take to scorninga1400
deride1530
outlaugh1605
smile1608
arride1612
fleer1622
irride1637
haw-haw1862
1530 [see deriding n. and adj. at Derivatives].
1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (iii.) f. 44v In altymes haue the tyrants derided the godly, whyls they paciently waited for gods helpe.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 30 b Mockers and flouters, who..deride everie man.
1611 Bible (King James) Luke xxiii. 35 And the rulers also..derided him. View more context for this quotation
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. i. 708 I know not whether they are more to be pittied or derided.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 817 Of them derided, but of God observd The one just Man alive. View more context for this quotation
1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music v. 75 A Bagpipe (an Instrument which an Englishman derides).
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxviii. 99 He justly derides the absurd reverence for antiquity.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. ii. vii. 272 Doctrines which, as an orator, he does not scruple to deride.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (intransitive)] > laugh derisively
to laugh smerec1275
fleerc1440
teehee1580
deride1619
1619 H. Hutton Satyricall Epigrams in Follie's Anat. sig. D The hang-man..Began to scoffe, and thus deriding said.
1663 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 466 A club..where many pretended witts would meet and deride at others.
a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) App. 562 When they deride at our Profession.
Derivatives
deˈrided adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective]
bemockeda1616
flirteda1625
fleered1632
derided1690
ridiculed1710
flouted1859
1690 W. Temple Ess. Heroick Virtue 108 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. Their decayed and derided Idolatry.
deˈriding n. and adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adjective]
gamelyOE
hathfula1250
scornfula1400
hathlya1425
mockisha1513
mockinga1529
mowinga1529
deriding1530
hethingfulc1540
bourding1552
make-sport1582
frumping1587
yarking1593
jerking1596
bobbing1605
derident1609
buffoonizing1611
scoptical?1611
scommatizing1613
derisory1618
ridiculous1622
ludibriousa1643
frumpish1647
twitting1655
derisivea1662
derisorious1664
scoptic1670
ridiculing1684
derisionarya1704
mockful1754
irrisory1846
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > action of
hokering?c1225
scorninga1240
bourdingc1400
mocking?a1439
mockage1485
deriding1530
potting1553
frumping1611
ridiculing1680
illuding1696
guying1885
razzing1917
snook-cocking1950
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > laughing to scorn
derisiona1400
irrision1526
deriding1530
Democritisma1682
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 213/2 Deridyng, laughyng to skorne, derision.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. i. 170 Prophane and deriding aduersaries.
1672 Life & Death J. Alleine (1837) vi. 71 Deriding and menacing language.
1723 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth (ed. 3) 116 His indiscreet..Derideing..of his Father.
deˈrider n. one who derides, a mocker.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > one who derides or ridicules
scorner1303
bourder1330
mower1440
mockera1460
subsannator1509
hickscorner?1515
derider1543
illuder?1550
bobber1576
flouter1581
frumper1589
deluder1592
flirt1602
fleerera1627
ridiculer1681
trotter1818
finger pointer1912
snook-cocker1965
1543 Necessary Doctr. Christen Man H iij A dissembler or rather a deryder of penance.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iii. 71 [He] smote his derider on the nose.
deˈridingly adv. in a deriding way, with derision.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adverb]
hethelyc1175
hokerlyc1275
a-scoffc1300
scornfullyc1380
bourdfullya1400
japinglya1420
a-scornc1485
bourdly1500
mockishlya1529
mockingly1542
bourdingly1552
deridingly1570
frumpingly1576
floutingly1580
fleeringly?1620
derisively1665
mockfully1834
snook-cockingly1962
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 820/2 In the same epistle [he] deridinglie commendeth them.
1792 F. Burney Diary Jan. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 109 ‘What do you mean by going Home,’ cried she, somewhat deridingly.
1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors III. lxxiv. 117 He deridingly called the swan on his badge ‘a goose’.
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