† scoffagen.
Obsolete. rare.
The action or fact of scoffing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun]
teenOE
scoffing1377
jeering1561
gibing1579
scoffery1589
girding1605
scoffagea1639
jeer1660
scommatism1664
chi-hike1915
signifying1929
picongc1938
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. xix. 222 These gracelesse young men think the threats but words of sport, counterfeit words which have no truth nor substance in them, but were very mockery and scoffage.
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