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单词 mocking-stock
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mocking-stockn.

Brit. /ˈmɒkɪŋstɒk/, U.S. /ˈmɑkɪŋˌstɑk/
Forms: see mocking n. and stock n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mocking n., stock n.1
Etymology: < mocking n. + stock n.1 (compare branch VII. s.v.). Compare jesting-stock n., laughing stock n.
Now archaic.
A laughing stock.Very common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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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
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Pet. ii. 13 Off you they make a mockyng-stoke.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvi. sig. K.iv Ye Philistines..vsing Sampson for their mocking stocke, in scorne of God.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 292/1 He shalbe made a mocking stock, & a bytalk in euery mans mouth.
1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 208 The wisest persons made but a mocking-stocke of his vanity.
1688 Earl of Perth Let. 31 Dec. (1845) 8 Robbed of my gold and mony, put into the tollbooth, made a mocking-stock of to that people by one Baily Boswel.
1791 J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. Mocking-stock, a butt for merriment.
1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea viii. 122 How should you bear to be made..a mocking-stock while you were full of gloomy wrath?
1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell i. i. 21 He was your mocking stock this short while since.
2002 travel.boston.com 16 Jan. (O.E.D. Archive) Start with heli-hiking, an invention of Canadian Mountain Holidays..and the mocking stock of backpacking purists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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