mockern.¹

Brit.

/ˈmɒkə/, U.S.

/ˈmɑkər/

Forms: late Middle English mocquer, late Middle English moker, late Middle English–1500s mokere, late Middle English– mocker; Scottish pre-1700 mockar, pre-1700 moker, pre-1700 mokkar, pre-1700 1700s– mocker.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; probably modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: mock v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < mock v. + -er suffix¹, probably after Middle French moqueur, mocqueur (1280 in Old French as moqueour ; 1676 in sense 3a, probably after English mock-bird n.; French moqueur ). With sense 3a compare earlier mock-bird n., mockingbird n.In sense 3b after a Maori name (see makomako n.¹, moki-mok n., moko-moko n.²), adapted by folk-etymology or transferred by confusion. Compare mockie n.

1. A person who deceives or makes sport of others; a deceiver. Now only in extended use, chiefly with allusion to Proverbs 20:1 (see quot. 1611).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives

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falsea1400

mocker?c1450

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deceptor1484

seductor1490

bullera1500

troker?a1500

craftera1529

circumventorc1540

bobber1542

cloyner?1550

illuder?1550

tricker1550

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treacherer1571

falsary1573

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treachetour1590

deluder1592

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foolmonger1593

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aguiler1598

baffler1606

cog-foist1606

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guile-man1614

hocus-pocus1624

colt1632

hoodwink1638

blindfoldera1649

napper1653

cheat1664

fooler1677

underdealer1682

circumvenerc1686

chincher1688

dodger1698

nickum1699

sheep-shearer1699

trickster1711

bilker1717

trickologist1723

taker-in1776

bilk1790

duper1792

Yorkshire bite1801

intake1808

gammoner1819

doer1840

delusionist1841

fiddler1857

snide1874

hoodwinker1884

tanger1886

take-down1888

tiddlywinker1893

wangler1912

frost1914

twicer1924

lurkman1945

jive-ass1964

skanker1973

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 33 Ye are but a mocker, and a iaper of ladies, and that is a foule tache.

1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper sig. Yiii A deluder and mocker of symple folkes and an heretique, whyche did..vse woondreful illusions to seduce & peruerte the simple ignoraunt people.

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xx. 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drinke is raging: and whosoever is deceiued thereby, is not wise.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vi. 12 If thou diest Before I come, thou art a mocker of my labor.

1972 N. Marsh Tied up in Tinsel vii. 177 ‘He was a wine-bibber,’ Nigel shouted. ‘Wine is a mocker.’

2. A person who mocks, scoffs, or jeers at something; a ridiculer, a derider; a parodist.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > one who derides or ridicules

scorner1303

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mower1440

mockera1460

subsannator1509

hickscorner?1515

derider1543

illuder?1550

bobber1576

flouter1581

frumper1589

deluder1592

flirt1602

fleerera1627

ridiculer1681

trotter1818

finger pointer1912

snook-cocker1965

a1460 tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Helm.) (1999) 237 (MED) Be no mocker [a1475 Bodl. mocquer] nor dyspreiser of othir folkes.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 14^v Ware that ye be no mokers for that engendreth hattered.

c1500 Young Children's Bk. (Ashm. 61) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 19 Be no glosere nor no mokere.

1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.5 Mockeris of all Religioun & vertew.

1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation iv. 199 How can he proove, that these were outwardly wicked, and irreligious, knowne to be Idolaters, drunkards, sorcerers, mockers..&c.

1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 39 If the many Mockers of Elisha,..felt the Effect of his Zeal, What will become of one Mocker of so many Friars?

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 396 An Ordinance, in which God is so seldom mocked, but it is to the Mocker's confusion.

1750 J. Byrom Rem. Middleton's Exam. 525 What these Mockers call'd a drunken Fit, Was God's Performance of what Joel writ.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 163 The peculiarities of the Puritan..had been..favourite subjects with mockers.

1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage xxi. 200 From under his creased brows he glowered with hate at the mockers.

1903 Speaker 10 Oct. 29/1 The enthusiast was a happy man, the mocker was a miserable man.

1964 Daily Tel. 19 May 14/2 Seeing law and order mocked by the callous young, some will say that with more rods there would be fewer mockers.

1991 New Yorker 11 Mar. 89/1 Aristophanes, the unsparing mocker,..cast a cold light on Pericles' refusal of alternative policies and available compromise.

a. A bird that imitates sounds, esp. the calls of other birds; spec. (U.S.) = mockingbird n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Mimidae > genus Mimus

mockingbird1676

Mimus1706

mocker1774

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Mimidae > genus Mimus > mimus polyglottus (mocking-bird)

mock-bird1649

mockingbird1676

mocker1774

1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 286 From the attention which the mocker pays to any other sort of disagreeable noises, these capital notes would be always debased by a bad mixture.

1859 S. F. Baird Catal. N. Amer. Birds (Smithsonian Inst. Publ. 108) 7/2 Var. Mimus caudatus Baird Long-Tailed Mocker.

1860 S. F. Baird Birds N. Amer. 353 Harporhynchus rufus..Thrasher; Sandy Mocker.

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xiv. 122 A cat-bird, the northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom's head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors.

1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 176/2 The Mocker is more or less a buffoon, but those who look upon him only as an imitator or clown have much to learn of his wonderful originality.

1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xviii. 232 All South American mockers do not mock. Both Hudson and Azara say the Calandria mocker (Mimus modulator) does not.

1991 Southern Living May 27/1 In a narrow rocky valley with water..singing its way among cypresses and cottonwoods and sycamores, while cardinals and mockers swell the serenade.

b. New Zealand. The New Zealand bellbird, Anthornis melanura. Cf. mockie n.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Meliphagidae (honey-eater) > anthornis melanura (bell-bird)

bell-bird1802

makomako1848

korimako1855

mocker1871

moko-moko1871

moki-mok1884

New Zealand bell-bird1884

1871 F. W. Hutton Catal. Birds N.Z. 6 Anthornis melanura... Bell-bird. Mocker. Korimoko. Moko-moko.

1904 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1903 36 129 The cuckoo had a full-grown mocker..in its claws.

1931 T. A. Harper Windy Island 307 Mako-mako New Zealand ‘bell-bird’, popularly known as the ‘mocker’ or ‘mockie’.

c. Scottish. The whitethroat, Sylvia communis.

ΚΠ

1929 E. R. Paton & O. G. Pike Birds of Ayrshire 65 The Whitethroat. Sylvia communis communis Latham. Local names: Mocker; Nettle creeper.

4. A plant or animal that imitates or mimics another in appearance; a mimetic organism. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > mimetic

mocker1866

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > similarity between different organisms > mimesis > mimetic plant or animal

mimic1855

mocker1866

Batesian mimic1951

1866 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 4) xiii. 503 When the mockers and the mocked are caught and compared they are found to be totally different in essential structure.

1866 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 4) xiii. 504 The mockers are almost invariably rare insects.

1922 H. S. Salt Call of Wildflower iv. 41 The name of ‘mockers’ is sometimes given by gardeners to weeds that are so like certain valued plants as to be easily mistaken for them.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mockern.²

Brit.

/ˈmɒkə/, U.S.

/ˈmɑkər/, Australian English

/ˈmɔkə/

Forms: 1900s– mocker, 1900s– mokker.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Yiddish. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: Yiddish make ; mocker n.¹

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < Yiddish make sore, scourge (see mocky n.), or a use of mocker n.¹ Compare earlier mock n.⁵

slang (originally Australian).

In singular and plural. Bad luck; a jinx. Chiefly in to put the mocker(s) on: to thwart or bring bad luck to (a person, an enterprise, etc.). Also to have the mockers on: to be jinxed or unlucky. Cf. mock n.⁵

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

1923 C. Drew Rogues & Ruses 115 They'll ave to race without me to-morrow. I've got a mocker hung on me.

1949 L. Glassop Lucky Palmer vii. 62 It's that sheila... She's put the mocker on us.

1970 ‘B. Mather’ Break in Line v. 61 ‘He isn't bad at all.’ ‘Then what did you put the mockers on him for?’

1970 J. Porter Dover strikes Again ii. 36 This investigation had got the mockers on it from the start.

1974 ‘J. Ross’ Burning of Billy Toober xi. 102 I tailed him... Not to do anything. Just to let him see he was being tailed. To give him the mockers.

1985 J. Kelman Chancer (1987) 162 Tammas glanced at Billy: What d'you bring him with you for? He always put the fucking mokkers on me?

1991 ‘J. Gash’ Great Calif. Game (1992) iv. 30 Maybe it wouldn't put the mockers on me quite so badly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mockern.³

Brit.

/ˈmɒkə/, U.S.

/ˈmɑkər/, Australian English

/ˈmɔkə/, New Zealand English

/ˈmɒkə/

Forms: 1900s– mocka, 1900s– mocker, 1900s– mokka, 1900s– mokker.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Arabic. Etymon: Arabic makwa.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < Arabic makwa, noun of place < kawā to press (clothes: see note below). Compare slightly earlier mockered up adj. Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) at Groppi records the compound Groppi mocker (also Groppi mocka , Groppi mokka ) and provides the information that Groppi's was a Cairo tea-shop and hotel first frequented by N.Z. troops during the First World War (1914–18). In Egypt and a number of other Middle Eastern countries there are clothes-pressing establishments (colloquial Egyptian Arabic makwagi presser of clothes) with changing rooms where one can shed the outfit one is wearing and have it pressed. The word (perhaps originally in a participial form: compare sightly earlier mockered up adj.) may perhaps have arisen from an Arabic noun of place, such as makwa, ultimately derived < kawā to press (clothes).

slang (Australian and New Zealand).

Clothing; dress, attire.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun]

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hattersOE

shroudc1000

weedOE

shrouda1122

clothc1175

hatteringa1200

atourc1220

back-clout?c1225

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1939–45 Expressions & Sayings 2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force in Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) 319/1 Grouse mocker—Best clothes (also Groppi mokka).

1947 P. Newton Wayleggo 147 Climbing out of bed and donning clammy, greasy shearing mocker.

1949 ‘The Sarge’ Excuse my Feet x. 110 He went away in search of his Groppi mokka, which consisted of a freshly pressed..pair of slacks and a bush shirt.

1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks iv. 106 Mocker, clothes in general.

1959 G. Slatter Gun in my Hand 51 Gives us a hand sometimes on the mixer or labourin about. Gets into his old mocker and gets stuck in.

1984 L. Loughrey in Austral. Short Stories 8 54 Just wear ordinary mokker.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹?c1450

n.²1923

n.³1939

单词	mocker
释义	mockern.¹ Brit. /ˈmɒkə/, U.S. /ˈmɑkər/ Forms: late Middle English mocquer, late Middle English moker, late Middle English–1500s mokere, late Middle English– mocker; Scottish pre-1700 mockar, pre-1700 moker, pre-1700 mokkar, pre-1700 1700s– mocker. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; probably modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: mock v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < mock v. + -er suffix¹, probably after Middle French moqueur, mocqueur (1280 in Old French as moqueour ; 1676 in sense 3a, probably after English mock-bird n.; French moqueur ). With sense 3a compare earlier mock-bird n., mockingbird n.In sense 3b after a Maori name (see makomako n.¹, moki-mok n., moko-moko n.²), adapted by folk-etymology or transferred by confusion. Compare mockie n. 1. A person who deceives or makes sport of others; a deceiver. Now only in extended use, chiefly with allusion to Proverbs 20:1 (see quot. 1611). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives swikec1000 wielerOE adderOE knavec1275 treacherc1290 guiler1303 gabbera1325 tricharda1327 faitoura1340 jugglera1340 beswiker1340 wernard1362 knackerc1380 beguilera1382 deceiver1382 illusor1382 deceivant1393 fob1393 falsea1400 mocker?c1450 feature14.. deceptor1484 seductor1490 bullera1500 troker?a1500 craftera1529 circumventorc1540 bobber1542 cloyner?1550 illuder?1550 tricker1550 double-dealer1567 treacherer1571 falsary1573 abuser1579 falser1579 treachetour1590 deluder1592 ignis fatuus1592 foolmonger1593 prestigiator1595 aguiler1598 baffler1606 cog-foist1606 feaguer1610 guile-man1614 hocus-pocus1624 colt1632 hoodwink1638 blindfoldera1649 napper1653 cheat1664 fooler1677 underdealer1682 circumvenerc1686 chincher1688 dodger1698 nickum1699 sheep-shearer1699 trickster1711 bilker1717 trickologist1723 taker-in1776 bilk1790 duper1792 Yorkshire bite1801 intake1808 gammoner1819 doer1840 delusionist1841 fiddler1857 snide1874 hoodwinker1884 tanger1886 take-down1888 tiddlywinker1893 wangler1912 frost1914 twicer1924 lurkman1945 jive-ass1964 skanker1973 ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 33 Ye are but a mocker, and a iaper of ladies, and that is a foule tache. 1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper sig. Yiii A deluder and mocker of symple folkes and an heretique, whyche did..vse woondreful illusions to seduce & peruerte the simple ignoraunt people. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xx. 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drinke is raging: and whosoever is deceiued thereby, is not wise. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vi. 12 If thou diest Before I come, thou art a mocker of my labor. View more context for this quotation 1972 N. Marsh Tied up in Tinsel vii. 177 ‘He was a wine-bibber,’ Nigel shouted. ‘Wine is a mocker.’ 2. A person who mocks, scoffs, or jeers at something; a ridiculer, a derider; a parodist. ΘΚΠ 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 a1460 tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Helm.) (1999) 237 (MED) Be no mocker [a1475 Bodl. mocquer] nor dyspreiser of othir folkes. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 14^v Ware that ye be no mokers for that engendreth hattered. c1500 Young Children's Bk. (Ashm. 61) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 19 Be no glosere nor no mokere. 1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.5 Mockeris of all Religioun & vertew. 1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation iv. 199 How can he proove, that these were outwardly wicked, and irreligious, knowne to be Idolaters, drunkards, sorcerers, mockers..&c. 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 39 If the many Mockers of Elisha,..felt the Effect of his Zeal, What will become of one Mocker of so many Friars? 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 396 An Ordinance, in which God is so seldom mocked, but it is to the Mocker's confusion. 1750 J. Byrom Rem. Middleton's Exam. 525 What these Mockers call'd a drunken Fit, Was God's Performance of what Joel writ. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 163 The peculiarities of the Puritan..had been..favourite subjects with mockers. 1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage xxi. 200 From under his creased brows he glowered with hate at the mockers. 1903 Speaker 10 Oct. 29/1 The enthusiast was a happy man, the mocker was a miserable man. 1964 Daily Tel. 19 May 14/2 Seeing law and order mocked by the callous young, some will say that with more rods there would be fewer mockers. 1991 New Yorker 11 Mar. 89/1 Aristophanes, the unsparing mocker,..cast a cold light on Pericles' refusal of alternative policies and available compromise. 3. a. A bird that imitates sounds, esp. the calls of other birds; spec. (U.S.) = mockingbird n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Mimidae > genus Mimus mockingbird1676 Mimus1706 mocker1774 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Mimidae > genus Mimus > mimus polyglottus (mocking-bird) mock-bird1649 mockingbird1676 mocker1774 1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 286 From the attention which the mocker pays to any other sort of disagreeable noises, these capital notes would be always debased by a bad mixture. 1859 S. F. Baird Catal. N. Amer. Birds (Smithsonian Inst. Publ. 108) 7/2 Var. Mimus caudatus Baird Long-Tailed Mocker. 1860 S. F. Baird Birds N. Amer. 353 Harporhynchus rufus..Thrasher; Sandy Mocker. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xiv. 122 A cat-bird, the northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom's head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 176/2 The Mocker is more or less a buffoon, but those who look upon him only as an imitator or clown have much to learn of his wonderful originality. 1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xviii. 232 All South American mockers do not mock. Both Hudson and Azara say the Calandria mocker (Mimus modulator) does not. 1991 Southern Living May 27/1 In a narrow rocky valley with water..singing its way among cypresses and cottonwoods and sycamores, while cardinals and mockers swell the serenade. b. New Zealand. The New Zealand bellbird, Anthornis melanura. Cf. mockie n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Meliphagidae (honey-eater) > anthornis melanura (bell-bird) bell-bird1802 makomako1848 korimako1855 mocker1871 moko-moko1871 moki-mok1884 New Zealand bell-bird1884 1871 F. W. Hutton Catal. Birds N.Z. 6 Anthornis melanura... Bell-bird. Mocker. Korimoko. Moko-moko. 1904 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1903 36 129 The cuckoo had a full-grown mocker..in its claws. 1931 T. A. Harper Windy Island 307 Mako-mako New Zealand ‘bell-bird’, popularly known as the ‘mocker’ or ‘mockie’. c. Scottish. The whitethroat, Sylvia communis. ΚΠ 1929 E. R. Paton & O. G. Pike Birds of Ayrshire 65 The Whitethroat. Sylvia communis communis Latham. Local names: Mocker; Nettle creeper. 4. A plant or animal that imitates or mimics another in appearance; a mimetic organism. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > mimetic mocker1866 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > similarity between different organisms > mimesis > mimetic plant or animal mimic1855 mocker1866 Batesian mimic1951 1866 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 4) xiii. 503 When the mockers and the mocked are caught and compared they are found to be totally different in essential structure. 1866 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 4) xiii. 504 The mockers are almost invariably rare insects. 1922 H. S. Salt Call of Wildflower iv. 41 The name of ‘mockers’ is sometimes given by gardeners to weeds that are so like certain valued plants as to be easily mistaken for them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mockern.² Brit. /ˈmɒkə/, U.S. /ˈmɑkər/, Australian English /ˈmɔkə/ Forms: 1900s– mocker, 1900s– mokker. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Yiddish. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: Yiddish make ; mocker n.¹ Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < Yiddish make sore, scourge (see mocky n.), or a use of mocker n.¹ Compare earlier mock n.⁵ slang (originally Australian). In singular and plural. Bad luck; a jinx. Chiefly in to put the mocker(s) on: to thwart or bring bad luck to (a person, an enterprise, etc.). Also to have the mockers on: to be jinxed or unlucky. Cf. mock n.⁵ 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 1923 C. Drew Rogues & Ruses 115 They'll ave to race without me to-morrow. I've got a mocker hung on me. 1949 L. Glassop Lucky Palmer vii. 62 It's that sheila... She's put the mocker on us. 1970 ‘B. Mather’ Break in Line v. 61 ‘He isn't bad at all.’ ‘Then what did you put the mockers on him for?’ 1970 J. Porter Dover strikes Again ii. 36 This investigation had got the mockers on it from the start. 1974 ‘J. Ross’ Burning of Billy Toober xi. 102 I tailed him... Not to do anything. Just to let him see he was being tailed. To give him the mockers. 1985 J. Kelman Chancer (1987) 162 Tammas glanced at Billy: What d'you bring him with you for? He always put the fucking mokkers on me? 1991 ‘J. Gash’ Great Calif. Game (1992) iv. 30 Maybe it wouldn't put the mockers on me quite so badly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mockern.³ Brit. /ˈmɒkə/, U.S. /ˈmɑkər/, Australian English /ˈmɔkə/, New Zealand English /ˈmɒkə/ Forms: 1900s– mocka, 1900s– mocker, 1900s– mokka, 1900s– mokker. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Arabic. Etymon: Arabic makwa. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < Arabic makwa, noun of place < kawā to press (clothes: see note below). Compare slightly earlier mockered up adj. Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) at Groppi records the compound Groppi mocker (also Groppi mocka , Groppi mokka ) and provides the information that Groppi's was a Cairo tea-shop and hotel first frequented by N.Z. troops during the First World War (1914–18). In Egypt and a number of other Middle Eastern countries there are clothes-pressing establishments (colloquial Egyptian Arabic makwagi presser of clothes) with changing rooms where one can shed the outfit one is wearing and have it pressed. The word (perhaps originally in a participial form: compare sightly earlier mockered up adj.) may perhaps have arisen from an Arabic noun of place, such as makwa, ultimately derived < kawā to press (clothes). slang (Australian and New Zealand). Clothing; dress, attire. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] clothesc888 hattersOE shroudc1000 weedOE shrouda1122 clothc1175 hatteringa1200 atourc1220 back-clout?c1225 habit?c1225 clothingc1275 cleadinga1300 dubbinga1300 shroudinga1300 attirec1300 coverturec1300 suitc1325 apparel1330 buskingc1330 farec1330 harness1340 tire1340 backs1341 geara1350 apparelmentc1374 attiringa1375 vesturec1385 heelinga1387 vestmentc1386 arraya1400 graitha1400 livery1399 tirementa1400 warnementa1400 arrayment1400 parelc1400 werlec1400 raiment?a1425 robinga1450 rayc1450 implements1454 willokc1460 habiliment1470 emparelc1475 atourement1481 indumenta1513 reparel1521 wearing gear1542 revesture1548 claesc1550 case1559 attirement1566 furniture1566 investuring1566 apparelling1567 dud1567 hilback1573 wear1576 dress1586 enfolding1586 caparison1589 plight1590 address1592 ward-ware1598 garnish1600 investments1600 ditement1603 dressing1603 waith1603 thing1605 vestry1606 garb1608 outwall1608 accoutrementa1610 wearing apparel1617 coutrement1621 vestament1632 vestiment1637 equipage1645 cask1646 aguise1647 back-timbera1656 investiture1660 rigging1664 drapery1686 vest1694 plumage1707 bussingc1712 hull1718 paraphernalia1736 togs1779 body clothing1802 slough1808 toggery1812 traps1813 garniture1827 body-clothes1828 garmenture1832 costume1838 fig1839 outfit1840 vestiture1841 outer womana1845 outward man1846 vestiary1846 rag1855 drag1870 clo'1874 parapherna1876 clobber1879 threads1926 mocker1939 schmatte1959 vine1959 kit1989 1939–45 Expressions & Sayings 2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force in Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) 319/1 Grouse mocker—Best clothes (also Groppi mokka). 1947 P. Newton Wayleggo 147 Climbing out of bed and donning clammy, greasy shearing mocker. 1949 ‘The Sarge’ Excuse my Feet x. 110 He went away in search of his Groppi mokka, which consisted of a freshly pressed..pair of slacks and a bush shirt. 1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks iv. 106 Mocker, clothes in general. 1959 G. Slatter Gun in my Hand 51 Gives us a hand sometimes on the mixer or labourin about. Gets into his old mocker and gets stuck in. 1984 L. Loughrey in Austral. Short Stories 8 54 Just wear ordinary mokker. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹?c1450n.²1923n.³1939
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