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mockn.1

Brit. /mɒk/, U.S. /mɑk/
Forms: late Middle English–1500s mokk, late Middle English–1500s mokke, late Middle English–1700s mocke, 1500s mok, 1500s–1600s moke, 1500s– mock; Scottish pre-1700 mocke, pre-1700 moik, pre-1700 mok, pre-1700 moke, pre-1700 mokk, pre-1700 1700s– mock.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mock v.
Etymology: Probably < mock v. (although attested slightly earlier). Compare Middle French, French †mocque (mid 15th cent.).
1.
a. A derisive or contemptuous action or utterance; an act of mockery or derision.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > piece or instance of
mockc1425
scrip1488
derision1535
frump1553
flout1570
scoffery1577
frumpery1582
flouting-stock1593
ludification1623
rision1656
ridicule1710
jab1905
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 3 He myght drawe to hym the hertys of many oone ther, yn spectaclis,..yn playes and othir courtly mokkys [L. nugis] and trifyllys.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 341 (MED) Mocke or mokke: Cachinna. Mocke or skorne: Valgia.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 360 Þe gude man..bade styll & had a mokk [L. maritus delusus remansit].
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 657 With his mokkis and his japys now shall I never have done with hym.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. clxxxxvv/2 This odle philosopher..casted at hym many proude mockes & shamefull wordes.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxv. 182 He..called me boye, and gave me many a mocke.
1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. B.vj This saith Tin.[dale] yroniously in a mok as though it were false.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xv. 271 Ye may wel think they gaue a drye mocke to all the arguments of Aristotle.
1615 J. Swetnam Arraignm. Women (1880) p. xxi Thou canst not goe in the street with her without mocks, nor amongst thy neighbours without frumps.
1689 Ess. Satyr in Fourth Coll. Poems 31 For after all his vulgar Marriage mocks, With beauty dazled Numps was in the stocks.
1774 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' xii Vow the swankies like to teaze Him wi' their mocks.
1795 R. Southey Vision Maid of Orleans ii. 234 Then did they not regard his mocks Which then came painless.
1837 B. Brontë Let. 19 Jan. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. viii. 164 To send you the whole of this would be a mock upon your patience.
1888 F. J. Child Ballads III. 178/1 Robin Hood..changes clothes with the palmer (who at first thinks the proposal a mock).
1906 J. London Love of Life in McClure's Mag. Dec. And always the ptarmigan rose, whirring, before him, till their ker-ker-ker became a mock to him.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 387 Mr Bloom.., after his first entry had been conscious of some impudent mocks.
1992 T. Gunn Man with Night Sweats 6 I saw..How Blackfoot Indian bone..Had underlain the hair, Which was mere ornament—A European mock.
†b. A piece of trickery or deception. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of
braida1000
fraudc1374
mock1523
brogue1537
flim-flamc1538
imposture1548
lie1560
cozening1576
smoke-hole1580
gullery1598
gull1600
cog1602
coggery1602
fraudulency1630
imposition1632
cheat1649
fourbery1650
prestige1656
sham1677
crimp1684
bite1711
humbug1750
swindle1778
hookum-snivey1781
shim-sham1797
gag1805
intake1808
racket1819
wooden nutmeg1822
sell1838
caper1851
skin game1879
Kaffir bargain1899
swizzle1913
swizz1915
put-on1919
ready-up1924
rort1926
jack-up1945
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxxvi. 213 He sent me with ye letter, the goodlyest chessemen than euer I sawe: He found out that mocke, bycause he knewe well that the capitayne loued well the game of the chesse.
c. Derision, mockery. Frequently in mock of. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun]
hokerOE
hethingc1175
scornc1175
gabbinga1225
bourd1320
scoffc1330
illusiona1382
mowinga1382
derisiona1400
mockery?a1439
alluding1535
dor1552
jerking1565
mock1569
frumpery1582
subsannation1587
floutage1600
ridiculous1605
ludibry1637
ridicule1675
razoo1888
stick1956
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 726 All their trauaile, paine, and expences, were to their shame loste and employed, and nothing gayned, but a continuall mocke, and dayly derision of the French King.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 319 The strong Statutes Stand like the forfeites in a Barbers shop, As much in mocke, as marke. View more context for this quotation
1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. vii. 160 Are they called so in vain, and in mock only?
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 41 Made as he was thus in mock of man, he was so blind to his own staring deformities, as to think himself born for pleasing.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge To Nature in Lett., Conversat. & Recoll. (1836) I. 144 And if the wide world rings In mock of this belief, it brings Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise i. 139 Yearned To cast this weary body off, With all its chains of mock and scoff And creeping death.
1881 F. T. Palgrave Visions of Eng. 247 [They] watched the Ganges-brimming jars In fiendish mock borne past their dungeon bars.
1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman xix. 222 Capricious ever, it will sometimes, in mock of its own cherished nervous system, exhibit a sturdiness out of pure perversity.
2. An object of derision; something deserving of scorn or mockery. Now chiefly in to make a mock of at Phrases 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object deserving derision or ridicule
mock1489
mockerya1500
satire1680
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. i. 230 Other suche thinges of the whiche shulde not be reputed nor taken in Iugement but for a trifle or a mocke.
?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 357 They hald it still vp for a mocke, How Maister Patrik fedd his flock.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) x. 31 If ere the world her freedome had attaind, He for a mocke had been reserv'd.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 53 They were a fright to few, a mock to many, and an hurt to none.
1814 Ld. Byron Ode to Napoleon xvi Foredoom'd by God—by man accurst, And that last act, though not thy worst, The very Fiend's arch mock.
1890 A. E. Barr Friend Olivia i. 5 A Puritan gentleman is her mock, and nothing else.
1943 M. Beerbohm Lytton Strachey 20 The Prince Consort..had become a veritable mock.
1963 G. Greene in Vogue (U.S.) 1 Jan. 101/2 At the age of twelve he has become the mock of all his contemporaries; each year when December comes around he suffers from endless practical jokes.
3. The action of imitating a person or thing; (concrete) something which deceptively resembles something else; an imitation, counterfeit, sham; a parody. Now British regional.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation
mock1646
travestya1668
burlesquing1677
parody1730
burlesque1753
taking off1755
ludicrism1830
masquerade1847
caricaturing1859
charade1871
spoofing1920
piss-taking1967
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > something false or forged
falsehood1340
counterfeiture1548
forgery1574
bastard1581
man of straw1599
counterfeit1613
imitationa1616
mock1646
pasteboard1648
sophistication1664
imposture1699
fraud1725
sham1728
adulteration1756
falsity1780
duff1781
shim-sham1797
shammy1822
Hodge-razor1843
pinchbeck1847
shice1859
cook-up1865
postiche1876
fakery1880
fake1883
bogosity1893
spuriosity1894
dud1897
cluck1904
rake-up1957
bodgie1988
1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 106 Now reach a straine my Lute Above her mocke, or bee for ever mute.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 277 It is but a mock, an image of a House of Lords.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 136 While pious Valverde, mock of priesthood stands, Guilt in his heart, the gospel in his hands.
1844 E. B. Browning Lost Bower xxxii Or, in mock of art's deceiving, was the sudden mildness worn?
1900 Shetland News 22 Sept. 7/2 Da bridals 'at dey haud in Lerrick is only a mock, dey can hae dem fir fifteen shillins, or a pound at da maist.

Phrases

P1. to make (a) mock of: to hold up to scorn or ridicule; to make into an object of derision. Also †to make mocks of.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > make ridiculous
to make (a) mock ofc1475
ridiculize?1615
turn1673
ridicule1684
to make a hare of1830
farcify1834
guy1854
c1475 Gregory's Chron. in J. Gairdner Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) 178 (MED) For men provesyde be-fore that þat the vyntage of Gascon and Gyan shulde come ovyr Scheters Hylle, and men made but a mocke ther of.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Heb. vi. A Yf they fall awaye (and concernynge them selues crucifye the sonne of God afreszhe, and make a mocke off him) that they shulde [etc.].
1589 J. Anger Her Protection for Women sig. B2v Of our true meaning they make mockes, rewarding our louing follies with disdainful floutes.
1655 in J. Stuart Sel. Rec. Kirk Aberdeen (1846) 136 He did mack ane moke of repentance by putting in of sneishen in his eyes to make them tear.
1698 Season. Admon. Gen. Assembly (1699) 11 Mr. John Hepburn standeth not to say, that some of them make a mock of serious Persons.
a1809 H. Cowley Which is Man? (1812) iv. ii. 54 Then, my Lord you have only been making your Mock of me?
1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. xviii. 265 My own shadow makes a mock of my fooleries!
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 7 Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 21 I could never forgive her for making a mock of me.
1904 J. London Sea-wolf vi. 67 But you, who make a mock of human life, don't you place any value upon it whatsoever?
1935 L. Mann Human Drift xxxii. 211 The spirit of the people changed from fervid loyalty to despair. The men had a feeling they'd been made a mock of.
1991 W. Horwood Duncton Tales (1992) (BNC) 97 It was Deputy Master Snyde, patrolling, looking for something to complain about, or make mock of.
P2. to make (a) mock at: to deride, to ridicule. Also †to make mocks at. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
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
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Jasp l. 143 in Poems (1981) 9 Ane fule..Quhilk at science makis bot ane moik and scorne.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 Makand mokis at that mad fader.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xiii. 9 Ye haue made a mocke at the councell of the poore.
1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xiv. 9 Fooles make a mocke at sinne. View more context for this quotation
1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely ii. 125 Tekeley made a mock at this forced offer.
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week ii. 19 Colin makes mock at all her piteous Smart.
1819 C. R. Maturin Fredolfo ii. i. 34 What dares not he whom nature's self hath cursed, And who retorts her curse upon her minions; Blasts beauty, scoffs at truth, makes mock at agony.
1891 H. Caine Scapegoat I. vi. 139 An evil spirit would seem to come to him, and make a mock at him.
1919 C. McKay in Liberator July 21/2 Round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mockn.2

Brit. /mɒk/, U.S. /mɑk/
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately < the same Germanic base as meek adj.
English regional (south-western). Cider-making.
A pile of crushed fruit that is built up for pressing on the bed of a cider press, usually wrapped in cloths or mixed with straw for stability; (also) the crushed fruit itself. Cf. cheese n.1 3b, pomace n. 3b.
ΚΠ
1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 275 Mock,..the Pomace or Pomage—apples ground to Pieces, & laid up to be press'd in the Cyder Press.
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 232 The washings of the ‘mock’, or pomage.
1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 328 Mock, pomage, or ground fruit.
1882 H. Friend Gloss. Devon Plant Names (E.D.S.) 38 Mock, apples made into cheese or pommage, ready for the cider-press.
1943 Archit. Rev. 94 137/3 Glazed channels covered with planks, so that at every moving of the ‘mock’ (as they call the pile of pomace and pomace-cloths) the drippings shall not be wasted.
1982 M. B. Quinion Cider-making 16 When all the juice..has trickled out from the cheese or mock (the local names for the stack of pulp and straw) [etc.].
1982 M. B. Quinion Cider-making 18 Ed Gifford is seen at work building a mock.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mockn.3

Brit. /mɒk/, U.S. /mɑk/
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare moot n.2 and variant forms s.v.
English regional (south-western).
1. A root or stump of a tree; a log.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > log
log1398
kinlinc1440
hud1483
chocka1582
logwood1666
backlog1684
back-brand1844
mock1844
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 328 Mock, a root or stump of a cut-off bush, or large stick.
1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 724/2 Mock (Dorset), the root of a tree.
1874 M. E. Whitcombe Bygone Days Devon & Cornwall 194 The Christmas Log..is usually called ‘the mock’.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 37/2 Mock, a large block. A piece of this year's Christmas mock is in some parts saved to light the next year's.
2. A tuft of coarse grass or sedge.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [noun] > herbage or grass > tuft, sod, or sop
turfc725
sopa1642
mock1844
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 328 Mock,..a tuft of sedge.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) The cattle usually leave tufts or patches of the ranker herbage: these are always called mocks.
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† mockn.4

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: mockground n.
Etymology: Apparently shortened < mockground n. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (mǫk) /mɒk/.
Irish English. Obsolete.
A tenancy held in conacre.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > types of farm tenure
steelbow1434
rundale1474
runrig1525
crofting1851
mock1862
métayage1877
1862 H. Coulter West of Ireland 71 Conacre or Mockground as they term it in Clare... I have heard of an instance of a Mock being charged for at the rate of £10 an acre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

mockn.5

Brit. /mɒk/, U.S. /mɑk/, Australian English /mɔk/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Perhaps formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: mocker n.2, mock n.1, mock v.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps shortened < mocker n.2 (although this is first attested later), or a use of mock n.1 or mock v.
Australian slang.
In singular and plural. A jinx; bad luck. Chiefly in to put a (also the) mock on: to jinx; to put a stop to, to hinder. Cf. mocker n.2
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > causing or bringing misfortune > one who or that which
foota1225
woea1300
infortunec1405
infortunate1558
jettatura1822
bad medicine1857
hoodoo1882
voodoo1902
jinx1911
mock1911
mocker1923
kiss of death1948
1911 E. Dyson Benno 33 It's up t'me t'put a mock on that tripester.
1938 X. Herbert Capricornia xxxii. 482 ‘He put the mocks on me,’ roared Norman... ‘What's he saying, dear?’ ‘He..reckons I told the police on him.’
1942 L. Mann Go-getter 181 ‘God's truth,’ he said, almost aloud, ‘there seems to be a mock on me.’
1965 W. Grout My Country's Keeper xx. 206 I hope I am not ‘putting the mock’ on Norm because my feelings are the same as the rest of the Australian Test players: When O'Neill is a doubtful Test starter the job always looks grimmer.
2001 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 19 May 37 I hope I haven't won three races going into the Oaks. I will probably put the mock on myself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mockn.7

Brit. /mɒk/, U.S. /mɑk/
Forms: 1900s– moch, 1900s– mock.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: mocky n.
Etymology: Shortened < mocky n.
U.S. slang (derogatory and offensive).
A Jewish person.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew
JudeishOE
Judew?a1160
Jewa1225
Jew mana1382
Israelitec1384
Hebrewc1450
Hebraean1509
Christ-killer1532
Hebrician1542
Jacobinea1625
Shylock1786
Jew boy1796
sheeny1824
ikey1836
Moses1844
Yahudi1858
Yiddisher1859
Yid1874
Semite1881
mocky1893
kike1901
five-to-two1914
Jewy1914
shonicker1914
ikeymo1922
non-Aryan1922
non-Aryan1924
four-by-two1936
shonk1938
bagel1956
Hymie1956
mock1967
yiddo1972
1967 L. Bruce in J. Cohen Essential L. Bruce 16 So anyway, I tell all these Mochs—Jewish people, you know.
a1980 H. Miller Moloch (1992) 133 We've got a big mock for a landlord.
1980 D. Hamill Stomping Ground 4 These mocks are sensitive sonsabitches.
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mockadj.adv.n.6

Brit. /mɒk/, U.S. /mɑk/
Forms: 1500s–1600s mocke, 1500s– mock.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: mock v.; mock n.1
Etymology: Partly < mock v. and partly < mock n.1Perhaps originally ‘(someone or something) that ridicules (someone or something) by imitation’ (for the sense, compare mock v. 6, although this is attested somewhat later; for the construction, compare compounds with mock- in which no imitation is necessarily implied, such as mock-beggar n., mock-God n.). It is noteworthy, however, that connotations of ridicule are slight or non-existent from the earliest uses of the adjective onwards; the parallel sense of the noun (see mock n.1 3) is only attested later.
A. adj. (not in predicative use).
1. Preceding a noun: designating a person who or thing which parodies, imitates, or deceptively resembles that which the noun properly denotes; pretend, imitation, sham, counterfeit.
a. Of a person. Frequently derogatory.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective]
counterfeitedc1385
counterfeitc1386
trothlessa1393
bastard1397
forged1484
apocryphate1486
adulterate?a1509
mockisha1513
sophisticate1531
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
mock1548
forbate1558
coined1582
firking1594
feigned1598
adulterated1610
apocryphal1612
spurious1615
usurpeda1616
impostured1619
mock-madea1625
suppository1641
affictitious1656
pasteboard1659
sophisticated1673
flam1678
Brummagem1679
sham1681
belieda1718
fictitious1739
Birmingham1785
pinchbeck1790
brummish1803
Brum1805
flash1812
spurious1830
bogus1839
imitative1839
dummy1846
doctored1853
postiche1854
pseudo1854
Brummagemish1855
snide1859
inauthentic1860
fake1879
bum1884
Brummie1886
tin1886
filled1887
duff1889
faked1890
shicec1890
margarine1891
dud1904
Potemkin village1904
mocked-up1919
phoney baloney1936
four-flushing1942
bodgie1956
moody1958
disauthentic1960
bodgied1988
bodgied-up1988
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective]
fainta1340
counterfeit1393
pretense1395
feinta1400
feigned1413
disguisyc1430
colourable1433
pretending1434
simulate1435
dissimuled1475
simulative1490
coloureda1500
dissimulate?a1500
simuled1526
colorate1528
dissembled1539
mock1548
devised1552
pretended?1553
artificial1564
supposed1566
counterfeited1569
supposing?1574
affecteda1586
pretensive1607
false1609
supposite1611
simulara1616
simulatory1618
simulated1622
put-ona1625
ironic1631
ironical1646
devisable1659
pretensional1659
pretenced1660
pretensory1663
vizarded1663
shammed?c1677
sham1681
faux1684
fictitious1739
ostensible1762
made-up1773
mala fide1808
assumed1813
semblative1814
fictioned1820
pretextual1837
pseudo1854
fictive1855
schlenter1881
faked1890
phoney1893
phantom1897
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. B.vv I feare me some be rather mocke gospellers then faithefull ploughmen.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1091 They this mock-King did espy.
1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. ii. xliv. 55 Many Mock Ministers having banished out of Divine Service, the use of the Lords Prayer, Creed, and Ten Commandements.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1652 (1955) III. 57 Then marched the Mourners, Generall Cromewell..his Mock-Parliament men: Officers, & 40 poore-men in gownes.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 10 The Tomb of the Mock-Saint which is in the middle of the Chappel.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo vii, in Wks. (1721) III. 217 The Envoy Thanks to the Mock-Angel paid.
1724 J. Swift Let. to Mr. Harding 8 This little Arbitrary Mock-Monarch.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i Are you not called..a mock Mæcenas to second-hand Authors?
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 84 A barrister..appeared for the mock plaintiff, and made some feeble objections to the defendant's plea.
1901 A. Lang Magic & Relig. 134 The mock-king who was annually killed at the Babylonian festival of the Sacæa.
1976 A. Price War Game (1979) i. viii. 149 He was talking to two of the mock casualties.
1994 H. Bloom Western Canon iv. xix. 439 Their unholy alliance with academic pseudo-Marxists, French mock philosophers, and multicultural opponents of all intellectual standards whatsoever.
b. Of a thing, action, undertaking, etc.
ΚΠ
?1558 in Catal. Anc. Deeds (1906) V. 498 As it seme he plaieth mock halliday with me.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 179 Those mocke-expeditions of Caius the Emperour.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. To Rdr. The mocke-words which are ridiculously vsed in our language.
1643 Conycatching Bride (title page) This..Mock-Marriage was kept privately in London.
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 213 His wooden mock knife.
1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise i. i. 5 I'll swear him Guilty. I swallow Oaths as easie as Snap-dragon, Mock-Fire that never burns.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Mock-song, that Ridicules another Song, in the same Terms and to the same Tune. A Mock-Romance, that ridicules other Romances, as Don Quixot. A Mock-Play, that exposes other playes, as the Rehearsal.
a1711 T. Ken Wks. (1721) I. 88 Mock-Thunder-bolt in his Right Hand he graspt.
1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxviii. 84 The lofty terms..resemble the pomp of a mock-tragedy.
1805 C. Wilmot Let. 24 Sept. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 198 She has satin dresses..mock lace dresses, a real black lace veil.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxvi. iii, in Maud & Other Poems 98 It is time, O passionate heart and morbid eye, That old hysterical mock-disease should die.
1882 Cent. Mag. May 103/1 He burlesqued in mock Latin the venerable pomp of college-catalogues and Down-East genealogies.
1901 J. M. Bell Poet. Wks. 169 Then, oh! from whence hath man the power, The absolute control, To play the mock-god for an hour.
1921 ‘K. Mansfield’ Jrnl. 16 Oct. (1954) 267 Clouds of all kinds—wings, soft white clouds, almost hard little golden islands, great mock-mountains.
1980 T. Ireland Catherine Loves iii. 20 Dad was trying to corner Mum who was giggling, making mock attempts to fight him off.
1990 Games Rev. Jan. 25/1 The game is packed in a cardboard mock attache case.
c. Of a personal quality, feeling, attitude, etc.
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1653 R. Sanderson Serm. Newport 22 There are..so many Mock-graces..that..are not the things they seem to be.
1684 W. Winstanley England's Worthies 346 One that was a Thrasonical Puff, and Emblem of mock-valour.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 309. ¶1 That superior Greatness and Mock-Majesty, which is ascribed to the Prince of the fallen Angels.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 12 The mask of mock-modesty was compleatly taken off.
1784 W. Coxe Trav. Poland, Russia, Sweden, & Denmark I. 150 This spirit of mock-reverence.
1806 T. Campbell in S. Smiles Mem. J. Murray (1891) I. xiv. 326 I am not assuming any mock modesty.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. x. ii. 259 The young man..had much of the..mock patriotism of the Romans.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures xxiv He gave that advice with mock humility.
1880 A. C. Swinburne Heptalogia 90 Thank my stars I'm as free from mock-modesty, friend, As from vulgar fatuity.
1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod (N.Y. ed.) xviii. 262 Do you agree that the mock-innocence and the sham wistfulness of Botticelli's Venus are her great charm?
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. i. 199 A friend of mine..sighed in mock-despair: ‘I wish they'd never done it.’
1982 R. Anderson Poacher's Son (1984) iii. 23 Humphrey glanced at me, and rolled his eyes upwards in mock disapproval.
2. Chiefly British. Designating an examination set by a school, etc., which is intended to give students practice for a particular public examination.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > educational administration > examination > [adjective] > type of examination
multiple-choice1914
pass-fail1930
multi-choice1950
open book1951
take-home1956
mock1960
1960 Where? iii. 15 ‘Mock’ GCE, an internal examination..run by some schools as a rehearsal for the normal GCE examinations.
1964 C. Dale Other People iii. 71 June..had done Tennyson for mock GCE.
1976 Liverpool Echo 7 Dec. 17/5 Kim seems to be taking about a hundred mock ‘O’ levels at the moment, and Garth mock ‘A’ levels.
1993 Accountancy Oct. 84/1 (advt.) Exam practice is provided by progress tests and mock exams.
B. adv.
1. Prefixed to adjectives and adverbs, forming compounds with the sense ‘apparently, but not really’, ‘in a counterfeit manner’, ‘pretendingly’.† mock-made adj. Obsolete made as a counterfeit or imitation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective]
counterfeitedc1385
counterfeitc1386
trothlessa1393
bastard1397
forged1484
apocryphate1486
adulterate?a1509
mockisha1513
sophisticate1531
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
mock1548
forbate1558
coined1582
firking1594
feigned1598
adulterated1610
apocryphal1612
spurious1615
usurpeda1616
impostured1619
mock-madea1625
suppository1641
affictitious1656
pasteboard1659
sophisticated1673
flam1678
Brummagem1679
sham1681
belieda1718
fictitious1739
Birmingham1785
pinchbeck1790
brummish1803
Brum1805
flash1812
spurious1830
bogus1839
imitative1839
dummy1846
doctored1853
postiche1854
pseudo1854
Brummagemish1855
snide1859
inauthentic1860
fake1879
bum1884
Brummie1886
tin1886
filled1887
duff1889
faked1890
shicec1890
margarine1891
dud1904
Potemkin village1904
mocked-up1919
phoney baloney1936
four-flushing1942
bodgie1956
moody1958
disauthentic1960
bodgied1988
bodgied-up1988
a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Hhhh3v/1 I defie thee, thou mock-made man of mat.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Somerset 31 Other mens mock-commending verses thereon.
a1711 T. Ken Edmund vii, in Wks. (1721) II. 178 Seven mock-bright Angels on the Deck appear'd.
1836–48 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Comedies 44 (note) A mock-serious tone.
1864 G. Meredith Emilia in Eng. II. xvi. 283 ‘It is done, sometimes’, she said, mock-sadly.
1893 Outing May 120/1 ‘Thank you..Mr. Smith!’ she said, with a mock-offended air.
1900 G. Swift Somerley 117 Prudishly mock-modest.
1936 Discovery Oct. 321/2 The short ‘Brutus’ curls of regency mock-classical beauties.
1958 Spectator 8 Aug. 193/1 The viewer who is sitting proudly in mock-antique splendour.
1968 Listener 18 July 92/3 A baron who mock-diffidently invites him to dinner.
1972 J. Wainwright Night is Time to Die 49 A mock-Wedgwood biscuit-barrel.
1989 R. Alter Pleasures of Reading vi. 183 Fielding's narrator, after all, flaunts his absolute freedom to..be by turns ironic and straightforward, playful and serious, mock-epic and shrewdly colloquial.
2. Prefixed to verbs, forming compounds with the sense ‘by way of simulation’, ‘as a joke’.
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1889 J. Corbett Monk xi. 158 He [sc. Monk's butler] was a wag whom Charles the First had mock-knighted one evening at supper with his table-knife.
1982 S. Conran Lace (1983) (BNC) 382 She waved the pestle in mock threat at Toby, who mock-dodged, then continued, unabashed.
1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 294 ‘The power of the press’, Lurton Blassingame mock-marveled as we bade cordial au revoir three hours later.
1999 Times 20 July 43/1 As she corrects him, Stewart mock-cowers in henpecked-husband fashion.
C. n.6
1. colloquial (chiefly British). A mock examination (see sense A. 2). Frequently in plural.
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1960 Guardian 22 June 6/4 A prefect enters... ‘It was a long time ago that we did Mock.’
1969 ‘C. Fremlin’ Possession xvii. 138 How could she ever get through her Mocks next term?
1990 Sunday Tel. 28 Jan. 48/7 It is at this point in the year, perhaps after taking mocks, that you feel you should have a plan of attack.
2. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). A garment, esp. a sweater, with a mock turtleneck.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jumper or jersey > types of > other
pointelle1892
turtle-neck1897
slip-over1919
polo jersey1925
polo jumper1925
polo sweater1925
Sloppy Joe1942
polo neck1959
thick-knit1961
sweater-shirt1964
skinny-rib1965
skivvy1967
mock1989
1989 Daily News Record (U.S.) 2 Oct. 35 Oversized..washed knits with mock turtlenecks are showing strong sales. Double-fabric mocks are popular, too.
1997 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 22 Aug. (Lazarus advertising section) 1 (advt.) Save on bomber jackets, mocks, pants and more.
2000 Women's Wear Daily (Nexis) 9 Aug. 64 s Cowlnecks aren't good here, but turtlenecks and mocks are.

Compounds

C1.
mock auction n. a fraudulent auction of worthless goods at which genuine bidding is encouraged either by pretend bids made by associates of the auctioneer, or by the offer of free gifts or other incentives.
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society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > auction > under false or fraudulent pretences
mock auction1770
rig sale1812
rigged sale1862
society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > auction > Dutch auction
mock auction1770
rig1825
Dutch auction1859
run-out1934
1770 Cheats of London Exposed 29 I call them Mock-Auctions, because they are deceits throughout, their advertisements set forth the sale of persons who never existed, and [etc.].
1884 C. Dickens Dict. London 28/1 The ‘Mock Auction’ is a swindle.
1928 Melody Maker Feb. 229/3 That wretched eighteen-penny alarum clock I had been swindled into buying the day previously at a mock auction sale.
1987 Observer 15 May 9/7 A mock auction is usually held in a hired room in a hotel or club, advertised as a one-day sale in leaflets pushed through letterboxes.
mock auctioneer n. the auctioneer at a mock auction.
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?1780 R. King New Cheats of London Exposed (title page) Kidnappers..Lottery-office-keepers..Mock Auctioneers [etc.].
1861 Preston Guardian 14 Dec. 1 A ‘mock auctioneer’, in Manchester, has been fined £5 for acting without a license.
1926 F. W. Engholm (title of film) The mock auctioneer.
1987 Observer 15 May 9/7 The mock auctioneer or ‘top man’ and his accomplices the ‘floor men’ may need to make a quick getaway.
† mock colour n. Obsolete rare a fugitive colour or dye (cf. false colour at false adj. 12a).
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > fugitive colour or dye
mock colour1791
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. ii. iv. 207 If it loses its body or ground of colour it is a mock colour.
mock cream n. imitation cream; esp. (chiefly New Zealand) a kind of buttercream used for filling and decorating cakes.
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c1929 Nelson Cookery Bk. 80 Mock cream... ¾ cup milk, 1 dessertspoon cornflour, 1 tablespoon butter, a small ½ cup flour.
1986 Listener (N.Z.) 12 July 52 As far as I know, ‘mock cream’ cake fillings are indigenous to this country.
1999 Dallas Morning News (Electronic ed.) 5 Feb. The lush mock cream sauce laced with dill.
mock croc n. see croc n. 1b.
mock gold n. a yellow alloy of either copper with platinum and zinc, or nickel with platinum, copper, and silver.
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1862 N. Amer. Rev. July 76 Marble stores like palaces, even furnished with ebony inlaid with mock-gold.
1958 A. D. Merriman Dict. Metall. 190/2 Mock gold, a copper-platinum alloy containing either nickel and silver or zinc.
† mock jack n. [ < A. + jack (in black jack n.2 2)] Mining slang Obsolete rare = mock-lead n.
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1758 in 6th Rep. Keeper Public Rec. App. ii. 129 A mineral..called Black Jack, or mock Jack, or Brazil or Red Stone.
mock-knee n. a callus on the inner side of a horse's leg below the knee.
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1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mock Mock knees, a term for the Crusta genu equini.
mock-lead n. Mining sphalerite (zinc blende).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > zinc ore
calaminaris1577
calamine1601
calmy1658
calaminarya1661
mock ore1681
blende1683
lapis calaminaris1696
mock-leada1728
black jack1728
cadmia1753
cadmy1756
calamy1756
calmey1756
calamine stone1761
red zinc ore1781
zinc spar1796
zinc-blende1842
smithsonite1849
zincite1854
adamite1866
adamine1869
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > sphalenite group > zinc sulphide
mock ore1681
blende1683
mock-leada1728
black jack1728
zinc-blende1842
sphalerite1868
wurtzite1868
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 182 A black glossy Matter like Talc..common in Cornwall; and call'd there Mock-Lead.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 93 A Black-jack or Mock-lead Lode.
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 84 Mock lead is the native sulphuret of zinc.
1944 C. Palache et al. Dana's Syst. Mineral. (ed. 7) I. 210 Sphalerite... Black-jack, mock-lead, false galena, [etc.].
† mock-leady adj. Mining Obsolete rare containing sphalerite.
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1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia 6 These fissures..be often mock-leady.
mock ore n. Mining a substance resembling a useful ore; spec. sphalerite (zinc blende).
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > zinc ore
calaminaris1577
calamine1601
calmy1658
calaminarya1661
mock ore1681
blende1683
lapis calaminaris1696
mock-leada1728
black jack1728
cadmia1753
cadmy1756
calamy1756
calmey1756
calamine stone1761
red zinc ore1781
zinc spar1796
zinc-blende1842
smithsonite1849
zincite1854
adamite1866
adamine1869
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > sphalenite group > zinc sulphide
mock ore1681
blende1683
mock-leada1728
black jack1728
zinc-blende1842
sphalerite1868
wurtzite1868
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §ii. iii. 338 Mundick Ore, and Black Daze, mixed with a Vein of White and Green Spar... These Ores, by some are called Mock-Ores.
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 183 A Lead-Marcasite..much like the Potters Lead-Ore... The Miners call this Mock-Ore, Mock-Lead, Wild-Lead, and Blinde.
1786 J. Whitehurst Orig. State of Earth (ed. 2) 230 This mineral has been usually known by the names of black-jack, and mock-ore.
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 84 Mock ore, or sulphuret of zinc.
1887 R. Hunt Brit. Mining (ed. 2) 911/2 Mock ore, a false kind of mineral, sometimes applied to zinc ore.
mock pendulum n. Clockmaking and Watchmaking a small non-functional bob or disc of metal attached to the pallets of a clock or watch having a verge escapement, which is seen through a slit in the dial (also called false bob).
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1960 Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 187/2 Mock pendulum, a swinging bob attached to the escape arbor, which shows through a slot in the dial plate of a clock. Only used in clocks with the verge escapement. Sometimes called a false bob.
1984 Antiquarian Horol. Dec. 106 (advt.) A nice silver paircased mock pendulum verge watch.
mock-plum n. = pocket plum n. at pocket n. and adj. Compounds 1.
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1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms (at cited word) Mock-plums, abnormal growths known also as bag-plums.
† mock-rainbow n. Obsolete = secondary bow or rainbow at secondary adj. 3g.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > rainbow > [noun] > secondary
mock-rainbow1647
secondary bow or rainbow1793
weather-heada1825
1647 R. Fanshawe tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido ii. Ded. sig. A4v I am not ignorant..that a Translation at the best is but the mock-Rainbow in the clouds, faintly imitating the true one.
1725 A. Pope Wks. Shakespear I. Pref. p. ii Each picture like a mock-rainbow is but the reflexion of a reflexion.
mock trial n. a trial which is legally invalid; one which imitates a legal process.
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1651 C. Walker High Court 39 Theeves upon the high way may as justly..condemne him upon such a Mocke Triall and Mummery or Enterlude of Iustice, as these Fellowes.
1775 T. Jefferson Draft Rep. on Lord North's Proposal 25 July in Papers (1950) I. 228 Exempting by mock-trial the murderers of colonists from punishment.
1951 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry Feb. 595/1 A powerful tyrant synthetically injects his own thoughts and words into the minds and mouths of the victims he plans to destroy by mock trial.
1993 Washington Jrnl. 6 Oct. a10/2 Mr. Black says: ‘I don't know what the mock trial did for her except to show that the legal system could provide a positive result.’
mock trumpet n. Music now historical any of various early woodwind instruments, esp. a chalumeau.
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1701 T. Baker Humour of Age ii. iii. 24 And we learn to Dance, Madam, at the Blew-Boar in Holborn; and Quibble learns to play upon the Mock-Trumpet.
?1731–2 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1873) II. 704 The Marmote-organ, and mock-trumpet's sound.
1976 Early Music 4 511/1 The clarinet was probably developed as a substitute for the trumpet...At first, this ‘mock trumpet’ had no keys, and players had to ‘lip’ to get into the upper registers.
1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments II. 670/1 The mock trumpet has been confused with the trumpet marine, with which it has no connection. Dart..described a book of instructions for playing the mock trumpet.
mock Tudor n. a style of architecture imitating that of the Tudor age, characterized by the use or simulation of dark wooden beams and white plaster walls; chiefly attributive (cf. Stockbroker Tudor n. at stockbroker n. Compounds).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > mock-Tudor or -Jacobean
Tudor1902
Tudorized1923
mock Tudor1931
Tudorbethan1933
Tudory1970
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 479/1 The sumptuous mock-Tudor mansion.
1990 Daily Tel. 4 Aug. (Colour Suppl.) 7/4 It was originally Queen Anne, but in 1880 the church converted it to mock-Tudor.
1999 Independent 13 Mar. (Mag.) 10/2 The best Sri Lankan tea comes from the region around Nuwara Eliya, a mock-Tudor British hill-station.
mock turtleneck n. originally and chiefly North American a high, close-fitting neck on a garment, designed to resemble a turtleneck; a garment having such a neck.
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1953 Sears Catal. Spring–Summer 241/2 Stripes..point up a mock turtleneck separate that you'll love.
1996 New Idea (Austral.) June 51/3 Mock turtleneck, $19.95, and overshirt, $39.95.
† mock-velvet n. Obsolete a kind of fabric; (perhaps) = mockado n.1 1.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Tripe de velours Valure, Mock-velvet, Fustian an Apes.
1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. L3 His meanes will not suffer him to come too nigh [the fashion]: they afford him Mock-veluet or Satinisco.
C2. In the names of plants.
mock-acacia n. false acacia, Robinia pseudoacacia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > locust-tree
locustc1612
acacia1640
locust tree1640
robinia1752
mock-acacia1754
rose acacia1762
pseudo-acacia1775
1754 Catal. Seeds in H. Rose & L. Shaw Geneal. Deduction Family Rose of Kilravock (1848) 428 Mock acacia.
1893 Littell's Living Age 23 Sept. 747/2 White-flowing, delicate mock-acacias.
mock-apple n. a North American climbing plant with spiny globose fruits, Echinocystis lobata (family Cucurbitaceae); also called wild cucumber.
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1874 Treasury Bot. Suppl. 1318/1 Mock-apple, a Canadian name for Echinocystis lobata.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 87/1 Canadian Mock-apple, Echinocystis lobata.
1910 F. Shreve Plant Life Maryland 486 Mock apple... Throughout the state; in open situations.
1959 R. M. Carleton Index Herbaceous Plants 82 Mock-apple: Echinocystis lobata.
mock bishop-weed n. (also mock bishop's-weed) U.S. any plant of the genus Ptilimnium (formerly called Discopleura) (family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae)) .
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > other umbellifers
hemlocka700
petroselinumOE
parsleya1300
wild parsleya1300
parsnip1538
lovage1548
hartwort1562
meadow parsnip1562
ass-parsley1598
honewort1633
alexanders1637
dead-tongue1688
ajowan1773
Arracacha1823
pepper saxifrage1824
mock bishop-weed1848
pepper-and-salt1861
square parsley1866
ass's parsley1879
1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 162 Discopleura, DC. Mock Bishop-weed.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 13/2 Mock Bishop's Weed, the genus Discopleura.
1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 648 Ptilimnium capillaceum... Mock bishop's weed.
1972 C. A. Brown Wildflowers Louisiana 125 Mock bishop's-weed, Ptilimnium costatum... Wet sites in prairie, margins of swamps, and fresh marshes.
mock chervil n. (a) cow parsley, Anthriscus sylvestris; (b) shepherd's needle, Scandix pecten-veneris.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > cow-parsley
casshe1548
mock chervil1548
wild cicely1597
pig's parsleya1697
cow-weed1744
wild chervil1783
cow parsley1785
cow chervil1804
beaked parsley1841
Queen Anne's lace1873
hare-parsley1874
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.vv Myrrhis is called in Cambrygeshyre casshes, in other places mockecheruel.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 884 Pecten Veneris..Shepheards Needle, wilde Cheruill, Mock-Cheruill.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Cicutaire Mock Chervill, wild Chervill, great Chervill, Asse Perseley.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Myrrhis Mock-Chervil.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 26/1 Mock Chervil, Anthriscus sylvestris.
† mock gillyflower n. Obsolete rare soapwort, Saponaria officinalis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > soapwort
boritha1382
crowsoapa1400
saponera1400
foam-dockc1500
fuller's grass1526
saponary1526
scour-wort1548
soapwort1548
mock gillyflower1578
soapwort gentian1578
struthion1587
soap-weed1607
gill-run-by-the-street1640
candify1727
saponaria1865
bouncing-Bet1884
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xiii. 335 Some do also take it [sc. Sopewort Gentian] for Struthion, but it is nothing lyke:..some call it Mocke Gillofer.
mock heather n. a low-growing evergreen shrub, Ericameria ericoides (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), with linear leaves and yellow daisy-like flower heads, found in regions of scrub and dunes on the Californian coast.
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1938 W. R. Van Dersal Native Woody Plants U.S. 54 Aplopappus ericoides..Mock-heather.
1944 Ecol. Monogr. 14 281/1 The vegetation is sparse and is dominated by large lupines (Lupinus arboreus) and mock heather (Ericameria).
1979 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 6 317/1 The vegetation type known as ‘dune scrub’ is characterized by three species of soft-leaved, evergreen shrubs: mock heather, Haplopappus ericoides), and two lupines.
† mock liquorice n. Obsolete rare goat's rue, Galega officinalis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants
peaseOE
vetchc1400
hatchet vetch1548
mock liquorice1548
scorpion's tail1548
ax-fitch1562
ax-seed1562
axwort1562
treacle clover1562
lady's finger1575
bird's-foot1578
goat's rue1578
horseshoe1578
caterpillar1597
kidney-vetch1597
horseshoe-vetch1640
goat rue1657
kidney-fetch1671
galega1685
stanch1726
scorpion senna1731
Dolichos1753
Sophora1753
partridge pea1787
bauhinia1790
coronilla1793
swamp pea-tree1796
Mysore thorn1814
devil's shoestring1817
pencil flower1817
rattlebox1817
Canavalia1828
milk plant1830
joint-vetch1836
milk pea1843
prairie clover1857
oxytrope1858
rattleweed1864
wart-herb1864
snail-flower1866
poison pea1884
masu1900
money bush1924
Townsville stylo1970
orange bird's-foot2007
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. H.iiij Regalicum is also named Ruta cararia, Galega, & Gaiarda... It maye be called in englishe mocke Licores.
† mock-mustard n. [after post-classical Latin sinapistrum (P. Hermann Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus (1687) 566) < classical Latin sināpis mustard (see sinapism n.) + -strum, suffix forming nouns] Obsolete rare a tropical plant (not identified, but probably a cleome).
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1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 316 Five leaved Mock-Mustard.
mock-myrtle n. (probably) bog myrtle, Myrica gale.
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1837 R. Ellison Kirkstead! 26 Thickets..Of sweet Mock-myrtle and of purple Ling.
mock narcissus n. now rare any of various narcissi belonging to a former classification group including Narcissus × incomparabilis and N. × odorus.
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1837 W. Herbert Amaryllidaceæ 310 Quéltia, mock-narcissus.—Style straight, more or less attenuated.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 257/2 Another group, the Mock Narcissi, with coronets of medium size, includes the fine varieties of N. incomparabilis [etc.].
1928 Bull. (Canada Dept. Agric.) No. 95. 19 N. incomparabilis includes all the mock narcissi or star daffodils, with coronets of medium size about half the length of the segments.
mock olive n. any of several Australian trees of the genus Notelaea, with hard wood and fleshy fruits; esp. Notelaea longifolia.
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1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 579 Notelæa longifolia... ‘Axe-breaker’. ‘Mock Olive’.
1989 L. Cronin Conc. Austral. Flora 125 Notelaea longifolia (syn. N. venosa), Mock or long-leaved olive.
1989 L. Cronin Conc. Austral. Flora 125 Notelaea ligustrina, Privet mock olive.
mock pennyroyal n. any plant of the American genus Hedeoma (family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae)), which comprises aromatic herbs.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > mock pennyroyal
pennyroyal1538
mock pennyroyal1848
tick-weed1884
1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 317 Hedeoma, Pers. Mock Pennyroyal... Low odorous plants with small leaves.
1887 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 427/1 The pretty but inconspicuous blue curls and the mock pennyroyal add an appreciable flavor of mint to the clear September air.
1933 J. K. Small Man. Southeastern Flora 1165 Mock-pennyroyal... Dry fields and open woods.
1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 544/2 [Hedeoma] pulegioides (L.) Pers., American Pennyroyal, Mock P., Pudding Grass.
mock plane n. the sycamore, Acer pseudoplatanus; in full mock plane tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun]
maple treeOE
maplec1385
plane tree1562
great maple1597
sycamore-tree1597
sycamore1598
sugar-tree1705
sugar maple1731
red maple1767
scarlet maple1768
rock maple1774
white maple1774
silk wood1775
moosewood1778
mountain maple1785
box elder1787
acer1793
sycamore maple1796
mock plane1797
Montpellier maple1797
water maple1803
soft maple1806
sugar-wood1809
swamp maple1810
low maple1813
maple bush1821
Neapolitan maple1833
snake-bark1838
moose-maple1839
sap-tree1843
Manitoba maple1887
Japanese maple1898
curly maple1909
Queensland maple1915
paperbark maple1927
Amur maple1934
1797–1804 T. Martyn Miller's Gardener's & Botanist's Dict. (1807) at Acer With us it [sc. the Great Maple] is vulgarly called the Sycomore-tree, and by some Mock-plane.
1873 R. Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 3) ii. iii. 458 The latter [sc. Acer Pseudo-platanus] is generally known under the names of the Sycamore, Greater Maple, and Mock-plane.
1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 15/1 [Acer]pseudoplatanus L., Sycamore, Sycamore M., Mock Plane.
mock privet n. = phillyrea n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > phillyrea or mock privet
mock privet1597
phillyrea1597
privet1597
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1209 Of mocke Priuet... 1 Phillyrea angustifolia.
1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 305 Mock-privet, Phillyrea.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Philyrea, Mock-privet.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Mock-privet, Common name for the herb Phillyria.
1994 M. Griffiths Index Garden Plants 875/1 Phillyrea L., Mock privet.
† mock-saffron n. Obsolete safflower, Carthamus tinctorius.
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.iiij Cnecus or cnicus is called..in englishe Bastarde saffron or mocke saffron.
1614 G. Markham Table Hard Words in Cheape & Good Husbandry Carthamus is an hearbe in taste like Saffron, and is called bastard-Saffron, or mocke-Saffron.
mock strawberry n. U.S. a trailing perennial plant, Duchesnea indica (family Rosaceae), with strawberry-like but inedible red fruits, native to south and east Asia and sometimes grown as a curiosity (and naturalized) in Europe and North America.
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1900 A. B. Lyons Plant Names 141 Mock Strawberry..D[uchesnea] indica.
1949 H. N. Moldenke Amer. Wild Flowers 123 In waste places from southern New York and Pennsylvania to Florida and Missouri, as well in parts of California, one may frequently come across a yellow-flowered trailing plant... This is the mockstrawberry.
1974 Q. Rev. Biol. 49 76/1 Dudain melon was in the baggage of Santo Domingans two hundred years ago, along with the Mock Strawberry.
† mock-willow n. Obsolete rare a shrubby spiraea with willow-like leaves, Spiraea salicifolia (sometimes called bridewort).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > meadow-sweet or dropwort
meadworteOE
meadsweeta1400
bridewort?a1450
meadowsweet1530
filipendula1548
goat's beard?1550
dropwort1597
queen of the meadow1597
mock-willow1633
meadow queena1637
queen of the prairie1852
honey-sweet1880
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) App. 1601 This Willow leaued shrub..I haue named in English, Mocke-Willow.
C3. In the names of birds.
mock regent n. (more fully mock regent bird) the regent honeyeater, Xanthomyza phrygia.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Meliphagidae (honey-eater) > genus Xanthomiza (regent honeyeater)
mock regent bird1848
regent honeyeater1913
flying coachman1918
1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. IV. 48 Warty-faced Honey-eater... Mock Regent-Bird, [of the] Colonists of New South Wales.
1958 J. A. Leach Austral. Bird Bk. (ed. 9) 181 Regent Honeyeater (Warty-faced), Turkey-bird (Mock-regent).
mock-thrush n. U.S. rare = mocking thrush n.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Mimidae > genus Toxostoma (thrasher)
red thrush1789
thrasher1792
brown-thrasher1810
mocking thrush1829
mountain mockingbird1853
red mavis1854
mavis1865
sage thrasher1884
mock-thrush1890
1890 Cent. Dict. Mock-thrush.
C4. Cookery. In the names of dishes in which one ingredient is used in place of another (usually one which is rare or expensive), and made to resemble it. See also mock turtle n.
mock brawn n. now historical a dish of pig's head and ox feet cut in pieces, prepared so as to resemble brawn.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > disguised meat dishes
mock goose1747
mock turtle1767
mock brawn1769
mock venison1845
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xiii. 279 To make Mock Brawn.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery Index 673 Mock, brawn.
2005 K. Olsen Cooking with Jane Austen 87 True brawn was made with the haunches of the pig, while mock brawn was made with less desirable pieces and usually with a little beef thrown in as well.
mock-duck n. a dish of pork, lamb, etc., prepared so as to resemble duck.
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1907 N.E.D. at Mock a. Mock-duck, a piece of pork from which the ‘crackling’ has been removed, baked with a stuffing of sage and onions.
1969 R. DeSola & D. DeSola Dict. Cooking 154/1 Mock duck, meat, such as pork chops, shoulder of lamb, carved to resemble a duck.
1972 R. Wiebe Tales from Western Canada (1973) 221 It's not a roast... It's mock-duck.
mock goose n. now rare a dish of leg or shoulder of pork prepared so as to resemble roast goose.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > disguised meat dishes
mock goose1747
mock turtle1767
mock brawn1769
mock venison1845
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 4 Some love the Knuckle [of Pork] stuffed with Onion and Sage..with a little Pepper and Salt, Gravy and Apple-Sauce to it. This they call a Mock-Goose.
1786 J. Woodforde Diary 21 Sept. (1926) II. 270 We had for Dinner..a rost Shoulder of Pork alias mock Goose.
1877 Cassell's Dict. Cookery 262 Mock Goose is a name given in some parts to a leg of pork roasted without the skin, and stuffed just under the knuckle with sage-and-onion stuffing.
† mock venison n. Obsolete a dish of leg of mutton prepared so as to resemble venison.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > disguised meat dishes
mock goose1747
mock turtle1767
mock brawn1769
mock venison1845
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery x. 271 Mock Venison. Hang a plump and finely-grained leg of mutton in a cool place [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mockv.

Brit. /mɒk/, U.S. /mɑk/
Forms: late Middle English mocque, late Middle English moke, late Middle English moque, late Middle English–1500s mok, late Middle English–1500s mokke, late Middle English–1600s mocke, late Middle English– mock, 1600s moc'd (past tense); Scottish pre-1700 mocke, pre-1700 mok, pre-1700 moke, pre-1700 mokkit (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 1700s– mock.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French moker, mocquer.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman moker and Middle French mocquer, moquer (late 12th cent. in Old French in sense ‘to make fun of, tease’; late 13th cent. in construction soi moquer de to attach no importance to, despise, scorn, spurn, ignore; 1509 in Middle French as estre mocqué in sense ‘to be deceived, deluded’; French se moquer (de) ) probably < an expressive or imitative base form (see further Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch s.v. mokk-). Compare Old Occitan mochar (14th cent.), Italian regional (Venice) mocar to mock, speak useless words, also Spanish mueca mock, jest, mockery (1514), grimace (16th cent.), Portuguese moca derision (18th cent.), Italian regional moca unnecessary talk. Compare also ( < French) German sich mokieren (1703), Swedish mokera sig . Compare slightly earlier mock n.1A connection with classical Latin exmuccāre is now usually rejected, as is a possible Germanic etymology. With sense 3c compare slightly later to mop and mow at mop v.2
1.
a. transitive. To deceive or impose upon; to delude, befool; to tantalize, disappoint.Now largely merged in sense 3a.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > disappoint, frustrate [verb (transitive)]
swikeOE
beguile1483
deludea1513
disappointa1513
dispointa1513
forsake1526
betray1594
mock1600
frustrate1663
evade1692
elude1694
balk1735
to let down1795
slip1890
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. 994 (MED) Fortune..Was to hym eek riht fauourable & benigne..Of fals entent to mokke hym atte laste.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1412 In spech off luff suttell ȝe Sotheroun ar. Ȝe can ws mok, suppos ȝe se no mar.
1538 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 141 He dothe but to dyvise to mocke al the world by practises with faire wordes for his owne purpose.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 246 Let us not wilfully mocke our selues to our own destruction.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. ii. 125 My father is gone wild into his graue..And with his spirites sadly I suruiue, To mocke the expectation of the world, To frustrate prophecies. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Judges xvi. 10 Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told mee lies. View more context for this quotation
1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul xlv. 77 What would it avail me, O Lord, to mock the eyes of all the world with a semblance of holiness?
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 773 Why am I mockt with death, and length'nd out To deathless pain? View more context for this quotation
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 98 What stately vision mocks my waking sense?
1819 P. B. Shelley Fragm.: Tale Untold 4 Empty cups..Which mock the lips with air, when they are thirsting.
1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 253 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property,..it will be mocked by delusions.
1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems i. 15 Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxvi. 228 Swayed by the antipathetic wave which warps direct souls with such persistence when once their vision finds itself mocked by appearances.
†b. transitive. To disappoint (a person) of something promised. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > disappoint, frustrate [verb (transitive)] > of something expected
failc1386
dismiss1490
mock1541
to cut short1755
1541 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Court of Requests (1898) 61 Your sayd servant and subiet was..dissapoynted and mocked of suche bandoges as he shold have had.
†2. intransitive. To jest, to trifle; to make sport. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > mere amusement > do for mere amusement [verb (intransitive)]
playOE
fanglea1400
mock1440
jest1530
paddle1616
wanton1628
fun1802
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, cheat, dupe [verb (transitive)]
belirtOE
bitruflea1250
begab1297
bobc1320
bedaffc1386
befool1393
mock1440
triflea1450
glaik?a1513
bedawa1529
fond?1529
allude1535
gulla1550
dolt1553
dor1570
poop1575
colt1579
foolify1581
assot1583
noddify1583
begecka1586
elude1594
wigeona1595
fool1598
noddy1600
fop1602
begull1605
waddle1606
woodcockize1611
bemocka1616
greasea1625
noddypoop1640
truff1657
bubble1668
cully1676
coaxc1679
dupe1704
to play off1712
noodle1769
idiotize1775
oxify1804
tomfool1835
sammyfoozle1837
trail1847
pipe lay1848
pigwidgeon1852
green1853
con1896
rib1912
shuck1959
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 341 Mokkyn or iapyn, or tryfelyn, ludifico.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 659 Ryght so cam in sir Dynadan and mocked and japed wyth kynge Bagdemagus, that all knyghtes lowghe at hym, for he was a fyne japer.
1537 Sir J. Dudley in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. III. 253 He..mocked not with me, for he brake down a part of the decks of my ship.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xix. 14 Lot..said,..the Lord wil destroy this citie: but hee seemed as one that mocked, vnto his sonnes in law. View more context for this quotation
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress (ed. 2) 78 I seemed to them as one that mocked, and they believed me not.
3.
a. transitive. To scoff or jeer at; to hold up to ridicule; to address with scorn or derision; to deride, taunt. Also: to say or utter jeeringly (sometimes with direct speech as object).
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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
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 64 Thei were mocked and scorned of alle folke for her leudenesse.
c1475 Mankind (1969) 378 (MED) Haue ȝe non other man to moke, but euer me?
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope vii Alle the sallary or payment of them that mokken other is for to be mocqued at the last.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 639/2 He mocketh hym at every worde and yet the foole perceyveth it nat.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 663/1 I potte, I mocke one with makyng a potte in the syde of my mouth.
1581 T. Lupton 2nd Pt. Too Good to be True sig. R He that is defrauded, shall be rather mocked than moaned.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. ii. 30 Loe, how he mockes me, wilt thou let him my Lord? View more context for this quotation
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. ii. 156 Mock not a Cobler for his black thumbes.
1675 J. Bunyan Light in Darkness 80 He is mocked, spit upon, his Beard is twitched from his Cheeks.
1755 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 110 As the Jews arrayed our blessed Lord in a purple robe, to mock him.
1781 W. Cameron in Sc. Paraphr. xvii. vi Mock not my name with honours vain, but keep my holy laws.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms ii. 273 Art thou a fiend..Come here to mock..My dying agony.
1872 A. C. Steele Broken Toys II. xxvi. 172 ‘Panniers are worn in front of ladies' dresses, to accommodate their gleaning,’ mocked Nella.
1894 ‘A. Hope’ Prisoner of Zenda xiii. 188 The King..grew red and then white as he looked on the pipe and at the merry devil who mocked him.
1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train iii. i. 135 Her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one had ever mocked her hatred.
1984 V. S. Naipaul Finding Centre iv. 66 She walked with a stick, and passed for a witch. Children mocked her.
1992 Playboy Dec. 111 Items..representative of the fullest flowering of a cultural period that is now universally mocked, such as the trousers of the Seventies.
b. intransitive. To scoff, to jeer; to act or speak so as to express scorn, ridicule, or derision. Also with at, †with.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (intransitive)]
gab?c1225
scoffa1380
mockc1475
to mock and mow1509
jest1526
jeer1553
taunt1560
gibe1567
scripa1572
to come over ——1600
flirt1603
tit1622
to sling off (at)1911
signify1932
barrack-
c1475 Mankind (1969) 365 We xall bargen with yow & noþer moke nor scorne.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. viii. sig. l.i v Also those the whiche mocken with these auncyentes.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 202 This forsooth is not to mocke with the Scriptures.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xli. 241 Some..do vse to abase them, and to mocke at mathematicall heades.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. vii. 21 Lactantius Firmian, and S. Augustine mocke at such as hold there be any Antipodes.
1611 Bible (King James) Prov. i. 26 I also will laugh at your calamitie, I wil mocke when your feare commeth. View more context for this quotation
1687 J. Renwick in A. Shields Life (1827) II. 287 Stumble not, because Religion is mocked at.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 122 Thus Nature works as if to mock at Art.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I ii, in Wks. (1870) II. 388 If fear were made for kings, the Fool mocks wisely.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket iv. ii. 164 Will he not mock at me?
1923 W. Cather Lost Lady i. vi. 79 She mocked outrageously at the proprieties she observed.
1942 E. Langley Pea Pickers iv. 50 I began to laugh outwardly at everything, and mock and make fantasy.
1983 G. Harris Seventh Gate ii. 31 The jangling of the keys at his waist seemed to mock at him.
c. to mock and mow: to jeer and grimace; to make faces. Cf. to mop and mow at mop v.2
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (intransitive)]
gab?c1225
scoffa1380
mockc1475
to mock and mow1509
jest1526
jeer1553
taunt1560
gibe1567
scripa1572
to come over ——1600
flirt1603
tit1622
to sling off (at)1911
signify1932
barrack-
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. liii They mocke and mowe at anothers small offence.
1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. xxii. f. cclviiiv Mayster Maskar..mocketh and moweth in that glasse, and maketh as many straunge faces and as many pretye pottes therein, as yt were an olde ryeueled ape.
1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 4 They mocke and mowe at them lyke Jack a napes.
1586 G. Talbot in Cal. State Papers, Domest. 1581–90 (1865) 452 It appeareth..that she doth already hate him and hath called him knave, fool, and beast to his face, and hath mocked and mowed at him.
1626 J. Davies Psalm xxxv. (1869) I. 411 In my woe they made great mirth and glee, The very abjects mockt and mowde at mee.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vi, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 244/1 With Flibbertigibbet, imp of pride, Mocking and mowing by his side.
1947 M. Lowry Under Volcano ix. 281 And now Yvonne Griffaton's father, who had been implicated in the Dreyfus case, came to mock and mow at her.
d. transitive and intransitive. In extended use.
ΚΠ
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. v. 61 The sportfull wind, to mocke the Headlesse man, Tosses apace his pitch'd Rogerian.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 9 He is droun'd Whom thus we stray to finde, and the Sea mocks Our frustrate search on land. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 628 Our walks at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring. View more context for this quotation
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 13 Tho' my harsh touch faltering still, But mock'd all tune, And marr'd the dancer's skill.
1788 T. Warton On H.M. Birth-day 51 And many a fane he rear'd, that still sublime In massy pomp has mock'd the stealth of time.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 103 Fleet limbs that mocked at time.
1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone vii. 113 A perishing That mocks the gladness of the Spring!
1847 A. R. C. Dallas Look to Jerus. (ed. 4) 84 Australasia and Polynesia have arisen to mock our arithmetic.
1896 A. R. White Youth's Educator iii. 26 We cannot all be heroes And thrill a hemisphere With some great daring venture, Some deed that mocks at fear.
1927 F. B. Young Portrait of Clare iv. iii. 372 In sheltered crevices gentian, starch-hyacinth and chionodoxa mocked with their living blue the surly Midland winter.
1987 R. Thomas Strangers ii. 53 A space had opened between them, mocking their physical closeness.
4. transitive. With adverb or phrase as complement: to bring to a specified state or condition by mockery. †to mock out: (a) to evade (an argument, etc.) by mockery or trifling (obsolete); (b) to acquire by means of mocking or buffoonery (obsolete).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > gain by mocking
to mock out1533
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > bring into a condition by
mock1533
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > evade (argument, etc.) by mocking
to mock out1533
1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde E vj And as for M. More, whom the verite most offendeth, & doth but mocke it out when he can not sole it.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 509 For there [i.e. at court] thou needs must learne to laugh, to lie,..to be a beetle-stock Of thy great Masters will, to scorne, or mock. So maist thou chaunce mock out a Benefice.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 285 For this his mocke Shall mocke many a wife out of their deare husbands. Mocke mothers from their sonnes.
1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe v. xxiv. §4 He would..be mocked out of his skin by Courtiers.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 193 It was no solœcisme to the gravity of Eliah to mock Baals priests out of their superstition.
a1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady 60 Some gigantic bell, Whose thunder laughing through my brain Mocked me back to flesh again.
1870 J. R. Lowell Cathedral 27 Is old Religion but a spectre now, Haunting the solitude of darkened minds, Mocked out of memory by the sceptic day?
1976 M. Macdonald Rich are with you Always iii. xx. 177 She wanted him to be mocked into silence or at least into changing the subject.
†5. transitive. To defy, flout, pay no heed to. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > reject contemptuously
spurnc1000
defyc1320
refusec1350
to kick against or ata1425
spurn1526
asperne1548
explodea1552
to cast (also throw) at one's heels1555
mock1558
foot1600
outscout1602
slighta1616
scout1710
stuff1955
1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 40v I thinke likewise this reason shuld be mocked.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. i. 30 I would ore-stare the sternest eyes that looke... Yea, mock the Lyon when a rores for pray To win the Lady. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 187 Fill our Bowles once more: Let's mocke the midnight Bell. View more context for this quotation
1704 Boston News-let. 12 June 2/1 The Commissioners seeing the Government mock'd by Capt. Larrimore and his Officers, resolved to send after them.
1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. lxi. 516 The hierarchy..knew how to honour the appearance of justice while mocking the reality.
6.
†a. transitive. To simulate, make a pretence of. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, simulate, feign [verb (transitive)]
mitheeOE
bipechec1000
huec1000
feigna1300
unlikena1382
counterfeitc1400
pretend1402
dissimulec1430
dissimule1483
simule?a1500
semble1530
counterfeit1534
dissemblea1538
suppose1566
countenance1590
mock1595
assume1604
to put on1625
assimulate1630
personate1631
to take on1645
simulate1652
forge1752
sham1775
possum1850
to turn on1865
fake1889
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 iii. iii. 255 And chase proud Edward from his slumbring trance, For mocking marriage with the name of France.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. i. 2 Go to him Dollabella, bid him yeeld, Being so frustrate, tell him, He mockes the pawses that he makes. View more context for this quotation
b. transitive. To ridicule by imitation of speech, manner, or behaviour; to parody. Hence: to imitate or resemble closely; to mimic. Cf. mockingbird n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > ape, mock, or mimic
apize1598
zany1602
imitate1613
mocka1616
apea1640
monkeya1658
mimic1687
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > ridicule or mock by specific means [verb (transitive)] > ridicule or mock by imitation
mocka1616
buffoon1638
mimic1671
burlesque1676
parody1733
caricature1749
to take off1750
travesty1825
grotesque1875
cartoon1884
spoof1927
to send up1931
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 173 Another [sc. drum] shall..rattle the Welkins eare, And mocke the deepe mouth'd Thunder. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 19–20 Prepare To see the Life as liuely mock'd, as euer Still Sleepe mock'd Death. View more context for this quotation
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew To Mock, or mimick another.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 23 For what live ever Here?..To bid each wretched day The Former mock?
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. xlv. 150 He [sc. a horse] would spread His nostrils to the blast, and joyously Mock the fierce peal with neighings.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. iv. 85 Human hands first mimicked and then mocked..The human form, till marble grew divine.
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 311 Not one of Stansfield's lines is like another. Every one of Salvator's mocks all the rest.
1867 G. G. McCrae Balladeadro 30 There the proud lyre-bird spreads his tail, And mocks the notes of hill and dale.
1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 102 Mudder, oor Jack's mocken mi slowpen mi tea.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out x. 150 ‘Who knows what mayn't happen before night-fall?’ she continued, mocking the poor lady's timidity.
1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave xii. 235 The pictureman whose services no one wanted and whose cry the children mocked.
1989 Yankee Sept. 97/1 Oyster and crabmeat are often ‘mocked’ in vegetarian dishes.
c. transitive. to mock up: to produce a mock-up of; to make as a replica or imitation, esp. for temporary show; to contrive, improvise.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > simulation > simulate [verb (transitive)]
belikec1275
counterfeitc1374
imitate1598
dissemble1697
to go through the motions1816
to mock up1914
1914 in W. S. Churchill World Crisis (1923) I. 527 It is necessary to construct without delay a dummy fleet... They are then to be mocked up to represent particular battleships of the 1st and 2nd Battle Squadrons.
1952 Archit. Rev. 112 55 It consisted of fabrics and prototype furniture by Terence Conran, arranged in a room cunningly mocked-up with a couple of venetian blinds and a bamboo ceiling.
1961 Listener 12 Oct. 576/3 Denis Mitchell mocked up a couple of glimpses of America.
1990 R. Goddard Into Blue (BNC) 155 A black-and-white Tudor manor house, separated by a gravelled car park from a modern two-storey extension mocked up to resemble stables.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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