单词 | mocking |
释义 | mockingn. 1. The action or an act of mocking; the expression of scorn or derision; taunting, mockery; imitation, mimicry. Also: †an object of derision (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > action of hokering?c1225 scorninga1240 bourdingc1400 mocking?a1439 mockage1485 deriding1530 potting1553 frumping1611 ridiculing1680 illuding1696 guying1885 razzing1917 snook-cocking1950 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] imitation?1504 mimesisa1586 imitating1591 mocking1611 mockage1615 samplinga1638 exemplification1650 facsimilea1661 mimature1663 mimicry1688 copying1712 mimic1832 patterning1845 simulation1870 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule hethinga1340 japing-stickc1380 laughing stock?1518 mocking-stock1526 laughing game1530 jesting-stock1535 mockage1535 derision1539 sporting stocka1556 game1562 May game1569 scoffing-stock1571 playing stock1579 make-play1592 flouting-stock1593 sport1598 bauchle1600 jest1606 butt1607 make-sport1611 mocking1611 mirtha1616 laughing stakea1630 scoff1640 gaud1650 blota1657 make-mirth1656 ridicule1678 flout1708 sturgeon1708 laugh1710 ludibry1722 jestee1760 make-game1762 joke1791 laughee1808 laughing post1810 target1842 jest-word1843 Aunt Sally1859 monument1866 punchline1978 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. 4554 Cast up off Venus the fals derisioun, Hir firi brond, hir flatries renewyng,..Off blynde Cupide the fraudulent mokkyng. c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 12 (MED) He lovyd neuer mokkyng ne scornyng. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 459 But in mokkynge ye shall be called ‘La Cote Male Tayle’, that is as muche to sey ‘The Evyll-Shapyn Cote’. 1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye sig. Avii He was obediente to suffre the mockynge of the people of Jewes. 1596 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1845) III. 866 The publick place of repentance is turned in a mocking. 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxii. 4 Therfore haue I made thee..a mocking to all countries. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 35 It is a pretty mocking of the life. View more context for this quotation 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. i. 2 These false Cheaters..mind only mocking and cosenage. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 74 They say, mocking is catching. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 23 A river, clear, brimful, and flush With crystal mocking of the trees and sky. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad liii. 569 The tradition that this is the identical spot of the mocking is a very ancient one. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. viii. 198 No, work had nothing to offer her—except ‘respectability’. And what a mocking was ‘respectability’, in rags and filth! 1980 G. Lord Fortress xiv. 112 Still nothing. Just the mocking of her voice as it rang off cliff and rock. 2. mocking-up n. the action of making a mock-up of something. Cf. mock v. 6c. ΚΠ 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 971/2 The shapes and sizes of the armour plates are sometimes obtained by the ‘mocking up’ process, in which the surface of the armour is represented in three dimensions. 1914 in W. S. Churchill World Crisis (1923) I. 528 The utmost secrecy must be observed, and special measures taken to banish all foreigners from the districts where the mocking-up [of the battleships] is being done. 1990 Packaging Week (Nexis) 22 Aug. 16 The standard design process..includes..the mocking-up of a sample which is then submitted to the customer and any subsequent alterations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mockingadj. That mocks a person or thing; expressing ridicule, scorn, or derision; engaging in imitation; mimicking. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [adjective] gamelyOE hathfula1250 scornfula1400 hathlya1425 mockisha1513 mockinga1529 mowinga1529 deriding1530 hethingfulc1540 bourding1552 make-sport1582 frumping1587 yarking1593 jerking1596 bobbing1605 derident1609 buffoonizing1611 scoptical?1611 scommatizing1613 derisory1618 ridiculous1622 ludibriousa1643 frumpish1647 twitting1655 derisivea1662 derisorious1664 scoptic1670 ridiculing1684 derisionarya1704 mockful1754 irrisory1846 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [adjective] lyinga1225 deceptoryc1430 mockinga1529 sleight1533 prestigious?1534 illudinga1547 fallible1552 delusory1588 prestigiatory1588 illusory1599 delusive1607 deceptiousa1616 deludinga1616 flatteringa1616 delusorious1625 fallacious1626 ludificatorya1677 illusive1679 will-o'-the-wisp1682 prestigiating1716 shama1721 false1768 deceptitious1827 deceptional1830 phantasm1834 will-o'-the-wispish1842 will-o'-the-wispy1857 illusionistic1911 illusional1942 the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [adjective] > characterized by mimicry or that imitates mocking1869 mimetic1882 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > resemblance between different organisms > mimetic or mimicking mimetic1851 mimicked1866 mocking1869 mimicking1872 a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 131 Fleriing, flatyryng, fals, and fykkelle, Scornefull and mokkyng ouer to mykkylle. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 720/1 I skorne one with mockynge wordes, je raffarde. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 52 Some merrie mocking Lord belike, ist so? View more context for this quotation 1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 4 The great mocking Maister mockt not then, When he said, Truth was buried deepe below. 1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation v. 258 A mocking contradiction of Mr. Johnson. 1721 J. Hughes Siege Damascus (ed. 2) ii. ii. 23 I am dar'd to it, with mocking scorn. 1793 A. M. Jones Poems 15 Thy mocking Form I still pursue. 1830 Lady Morgan France 1829–30 I. 432 In matters of religion, the sublime is in the closest juxtaposition with the ridiculous; and the French are essentially a mocking people. 1869 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 5) xiii. 507 But if we proceed from a district where one Leptalis imitates an Ithomia, another mocking and mocked species belonging to the same genera, equally close in their resemblance, will be found. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 187 The savages, as the mocking tongues of the Normans called them. 1925 J. Conrad Suspense i. i. 11 ‘There are people..that think it can be done,’ he added in a mocking tone. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 22 A look of adult-excluding complicity, both mocking and confident. 1992 Hindu 13 Sept. (Mag.) 3/6 A description of the cunning ways of the melodious and mocking koel in leaving its eggs in the nest of the crow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1439adj.a1529 |
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