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单词 mockable
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mockableadj.

Brit. /ˈmɒkəbl/, U.S. /ˈmɑkəb(ə)l/
Forms: 1600s mockeable, 1800s– mockable.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: mock v., -able suffix.
Etymology: < mock v. + -able suffix, perhaps after Middle French mocquable (a1544, rare; French moquable (1819)).
Worthy of, or exposed to, mockery or derision.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective] > ridiculous
gamelyOE
jape-worthyc1374
foolisha1500
ridiculous1533
ludibrious1570
laughable1600
mockablea1616
laughworthy1616
ludicral1656
derisible1657
absurd1716
grotesque1747
tomfool1762
irrisible1767
ludicrous1782
deridable1804
saugrenu1876
screwy1887
derisive1896
josh1908
nutty1915
derisory1923
dingbat1935
bonkers1961
joky1964
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 46 Those that are good maners at the Court, are as ridiculous in the Countrey, as the behauiour of the Countrie is most mockeable at the Court. View more context for this quotation
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vii. 66 This huge moon-calf of Sansculottism,..is not mockable only, and soft like another calf.
1892 W. W. Peyton Mem. Jesus iii. 63 The Primates..mock us unconsciously. We encounter the mockable element in man, just at the junction where flesh is passing into mind, animality into mentality.
1983 Listener 8 Sept. 25/2 Somewhat mockable was Capital's latest foray into serious drama.
1994 R. Davies Cunning Man 457 His elderly lovers are given to renunciation, that Victorian enthusiasm which psychoanalysis has for the present made mockable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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