† mockishadj.
Obsolete.
1. Mocking, derisive. Also: mock, sham.
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 > forgery, falsification > [adjective]
counterfeitedc1385
counterfeitc1386
trothlessa1393
bastard1397
forged1484
apocryphate1486
adulterate?a1509
mockisha1513
sophisticate1531
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
mock1548
forbate1558
coined1582
firking1594
feigned1598
adulterated1610
apocryphal1612
spurious1615
usurpeda1616
impostured1619
mock-madea1625
suppository1641
affictitious1656
pasteboard1659
sophisticated1673
flam1678
Brummagem1679
sham1681
belieda1718
fictitious1739
Birmingham1785
pinchbeck1790
brummish1803
Brum1805
flash1812
spurious1830
bogus1839
imitative1839
dummy1846
doctored1853
postiche1854
pseudo1854
Brummagemish1855
snide1859
inauthentic1860
fake1879
bum1884
Brummie1886
tin1886
filled1887
duff1889
faked1890
shicec1890
margarine1891
dud1904
Potemkin village1904
mocked-up1919
phoney baloney1936
four-flushing1942
bodgie1956
moody1958
disauthentic1960
bodgied1988
bodgied-up1988
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxi In derysyon of the kynge, they made this mokkysshe Ryme folowyng.
1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Avi Blowyng out your hornes Full of mockysshe scornes.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 67/1 After this mockishe eleccion, than was he Crowned [etc.].
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 457 This mockish rime doggerell.
2. Of an animal: skittish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by nature > [adjective] > restless or unruly
mockisha1529
unruly1544
undemure?1548
skittish1600
lawless1854
uneasy1855
rowdy1872
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. A.vi Let se who that dare Sho the mockysshe mare.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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