单词 | mocking-stock |
释义 | mocking-stockn. Now archaic. A laughing stock.Very common in the 16th and 17th centuries. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1526 |
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