Definition of mock in English:

mock

verb mɒkmɑk

[with object]

1Tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner.
opposition MPs mocked the government's decision
Example sentencesExamples
- The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film.
- Everyday I had to go through the pain of being mocked and laughed at.
- Have you no thought of how your children will be mocked and teased by other children when they're at school?
- Later, he had party members laughing as he mocked the premier's economic recovery plan.
- A very common response to this is essentially to mock this as ridiculous.
- We laughed, we mocked, we teased, we made fun of each other, we made fun of strangers.
- We may laugh, scowl or mock initially, but eventually we usually recognize them as what they are and move on.
- None of the people we get on well with are being treated that badly; hassled a bit and teased and mocked, maybe, but not hit or tripped in the corridors.
- The reproach was lightly mocking and they both laughed.
- May be it was just because of her bad mood and hopeless situation but it seemed as if they were laughing sinisterly and mocking at her.
- Wendy was so supportive as she mocked and laughed at me.
- But would you make fun of her, laugh and mock at her?
- But most of all, the politically correct do not like being publicly mocked and revealed as ridiculous.
- Doing so is justifiable cause for being mocked, teased, and otherwise humiliated.
- We laugh and mock from the moment of their first appearance.
- Today millions of unbelievers sit in front of their TV sets laughing and mocking at what once was considered sacred.
- I confess, that while we did not mock, we did laugh out loud at the protesters.
- It was the first time I started laughing and not to mock something.
- I worked in talkback radio for several years and when the microphone is off, people like him are openly mocked and laughed at by the hosts.
Synonyms
ridicule, jeer at, sneer at, deride, treat with contempt, treat contemptuously, scorn, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, make jokes about, laugh to scorn, scoff at, pillory, be sarcastic about, tease, taunt, make a monkey of, rag, chaff, jibe at
Australian/New Zealand chiack
informal kid, rib, josh, twit
British informal wind up, take the mickey out of
British vulgar slang take the piss out of
North American informal goof on, rag on, razz, pull someone's chain
Australian/New Zealand informal poke mullock at, sling off at
dated make sport of
sneering, derisive, contemptuous, scornful, sardonic, insulting, satirical, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, teasing, taunting
1. 1.1 Make (something) seem laughably unreal or impossible.
  at Christmas, arguments and friction mock our pretence at peace
  Example sentencesExamples
  It mocks principles of justice, including basic norms of fairness, as well the underlying basis of contract law, which is the orderly regulation and development of commercial life.
  The phenomenon runs deep; it mocks political barriers and reaches all circles.
  The music mocks the pompous words with its crude, plodding scales, and speaks of horror rather than triumph.
  His work mocks our desire for a safe, fantasy non-place for our garbage.
  But today the daily panic and the long line of citizens testing for anthrax mocks this misplaced confidence.
  But the ingrained assumption that we are legislator, judge, jury and executioner mocks any notion of global order.
  Democracy works by keeping leaders accountable and a campaign that consists of little more than photo opportunities mocks democracy, period.
  This is the time to decide whether this country and, by logical extension, the fate of the world should be in the hands of a leader whose essential mode of governance mocks the ideals of a free society.
  But if the past is any guide, the left will succeed once again in blocking the nomination of a minority judicial candidate whose success mocks their mantra that minorities can't make it in America.
  But the reality on the ground mocks those assertions.
2. 1.2 Mimic (someone or something) scornfully or contemptuously.
  he ought to find out who used his name, mocked his voice, and aped a few of his guitar lines
  Example sentencesExamples
  When he looked up, he saw Kerna mocking him, imitating a woman drinking tea on the same log before the thicket.
  I mimicked the innocent grin she displayed herself moments ago, mocking her now displeased demeanor.
  The children burst out laughing when she mocked the way some people took food, comparing it to the cows chewing its cud.
  Synonyms
  parody, ape, guy, take off, caricature, satirize, lampoon, imitate, mimic
  informal send up, spoof
2mock something upMake a replica or imitation of something.
Example sentencesExamples
- The furniture and decorations were not mocked up in every detail, but the draped table and open Bible were modelled, and the seated woman was represented by a lay figure in a dress.
- If you need to explain something, try mocking it up and prototyping it rather than writing a longwinded document.
- As far as this bike goes I originally was going to paint it flat black with hot rod flames but as I was mocking it up it really came into its own.
- Right now I am getting ready to mock it up to see what it will look like and make some final design decisions.
- Once your services are provided via interfaces you can mock them up for testing or demo purposes.
- I got a set of those brackets and I was planning on mocking them up on an empty housing I have.
- I quickly mocked it up to add a little more life to the site and to replace the button that was there before.
- I played it into a computer and then a friend of mine had this computer that could bring in all kinds of synthetic instruments, so we sort of mocked it up, using oboes, and cellos.
- I'll then drop my car off so the fabricator can build them properly with an actual car to mock them up with.
- If you have a scanner (slide scanner preferred), go ahead and scan your images and mock something up.

adjective mɒkmɑk

1attributive Not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive.
a mock-Georgian red brick house
Jim threw up his hands in mock horror
Example sentencesExamples
- Holly brought a hand to her mouth in mock horror.
- I sat up so I could see her, a look of mock horror on my face.
- The popularity of this enduring musical is evident in the audience, who clap and cheer every song and gasp in mock horror at the untimely death of one of the heroes at the close of the play.
- We ate fish served with a salad and baked potatoes, followed by a dessert of real strawberries in mock cream (made up from powdered milk).
- The party routinely sets the agenda for new attacks on welfare and immigrants, to which the other parties adapt while holding up their hands in mock horror.
- Mattie gasped, fluttering a hand over his heart, his large eyes growing wide in mock horror.
- The boys looked at Will in mock horror and disgust, moving away from Will ever so slightly in supposed contempt.
- ‘What are you implying,’ roars the actor in mock horror.
- She looked at me in mock horror, and threw her pillow at me.
- Arturo raised his hands to his mouth in mock horror.
- ‘It's all the things that I find most horrifying,’ says Homes, with mock horror.
- She slapped her hands to her cheeks in mock horror.
- She gasped in mock horror, widening her eyes and her mouth forming an ‘o’ shape.
- Matt opened his eyes wide and turned to me in mock horror.
- Jay widened his eyes in mock horror, holding his hands up in front of his chest.
- As the cop turns to leave, the punk's screams change from mock protest to real anger.
- She feigned shock and gasped in mock horror.
- The mock smoking group showed higher accuracy after smoking a real cigarette than after mock smoking, however their response times remained unaffected.
- They screamed in mock horror when they went past the roaring Abominable snowman and leaned into every turn.
Synonyms
imitation, artificial, man-made, manufactured, simulated, synthetic, ersatz, plastic, so-called, fake, false, faux, reproduction, replica, facsimile, dummy, model, toy, make-believe, sham, spurious, bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent, forged, pseudo, pretended
informal pretend, phoney
1. 1.1 (of an examination, battle, etc.) arranged for training or practice.
  mock GCSEs
  Example sentencesExamples
  The final module is on interview preparation, including mock exercises and exam papers.
  Instead, faces decorated in warrior paint, the participants enact mock battle situations in their movements, exercising their frustrations in a better way.
  With mock examinations and mid-term breaks over the next few weeks very few games have been arranged.
  Last month re-enactors staged a mock battle at the site, as a testing ground before the full festival on September 23 and 24 next year.
  The mock battle began with shots shouted back and forth.
  It was armed with a cache of stuffed animals and sparkles with the intent of staging a mock siege of the fenced-in leaders.
  Students walked to the stage and faced this mock interview under the full glare of those who had gathered at the college auditorium.
  Artificial lakes were often created and ships conducted a mock battle (called the Naumachia).
  So they put me through a mock interview and at the end of it I was invited and then offered the position.
  The competition consists of the school teams going head to head in a mock trial with a real judge acting as adjudicator.
  Go through a mock interview with a friend or peer.
  He will be a fine knight, if his show at the mock battle was not a fluke.
  This video is funny, like the guys on donkeys, but becomes chilling as the children engage in their mock battle.
  Various re-enactment groups, from Vikings to 20th century, will liven up the event with mock battles and drills.
  As groups of youths prepared for a carnivalesque mock battle that was to have been the popular centre-piece for one of these festivals, the celebrations turned into a riot.
  She began to punch and kick the air in mock battle.
  And the Club offer mock interviews to pupils who are preparing to start jobs or university.
  In this mock battle, the men try their best not to get captured.
  Since then, he has had to undergo a number of interviews, mock breakdown scenarios and mechanical tests.
  We have mock battles with each other on a daily basis.
  Synonyms
  simulated, feigned, pretended, practice, trial, make-believe

noun mɒkmɑk

1mocksBritish informal Mock examinations.
obtaining Grade A in mocks
Example sentencesExamples
- But I don't think most of us were surprised by the results because when we did the mocks, we all did pretty badly,’ she said.
- ‘Well maybe I've been a bit busy revising because we have the remainder of our mocks in the next week and a half,’ I snapped.
- She said: ‘I started to do A-levels, but left after the mocks.’
- I once took a couple before a history mock because I'd been up late and it was horrible.
- And by December, GCSE mocks are being sat before the final exam timetables come through in Spring.
- I better start revising now, I have a business mock exam tomorrow.
- I get so stressed taking exams that during my mocks it stopped me sleeping and made me physically sick - how can I control this for the real thing?
- The mocks were soon and if she didn't check this beforehand and it was wrong I'd get a bad mark.
2dated An object of derision.
he has become the mock of all his contemporaries

Phrases

make (a) mock of

Hold up to scorn or ridicule.
stop making a mock of other people's business
Example sentencesExamples
- Of all the people to make mock of the depravity visited upon those prisoners, a former POW is the last one I'd expect to see doing it.
- In one point, however, accuracy is well within our reach, and nearly all the cookery books - even those produced under the eyes of great artists - make a mock of it.
- It was put to him finally: ‘You lost your temper because you believed they were making a mock of you’.
- After Rosencrantz tells Hamlet of the players' arrival, Polonius enters to tell Hamlet the same thing, which Hamlet makes mock of: ‘I will prophesy, he comes to tell me of the players, mark it.’
- He was having a laugh, making mock of his opponent's stature and ranking.
- I've mentioned that she made mock of him.
- The broadcaster's Head of Light Entertainment at the time was a cautious man who pondered, on reading the first script, ‘Were we making mock of Britain's Finest Hour?’
- Later, we stood in a dark corner in a crowded bar, making mock of everyone we could see.

Derivatives

mockable

adjective

Rather than finding quotes that are genuinely worth mocking, the author feels the pressure to find something from his target, and the bar for what's mockable necessarily gets lowered.
Example sentencesExamples
- He narrates a letter home from a dedicated soldier in Vietnam, interspersed with his highly mockable brother back home at the university, and his protest marches.
- Even some of the most easily mockable aspects of business life - meetings to plan for meetings, mission statements, presentation slides, to name but three - are not complete jokes.
- I can tell by his tone that this is a mockable offence but, like a Chinaman in a French restaurant, I have no idea what he's talking about.
- What I do know reminds me of the strident sort of PC left-winger who was embarrassingly mockable, and no one with any sense hung out with.
- This insular satire, this xenophobic comedy, said that foreigners, insofar as it recognized them, are funny, mockable for the sin of deviating from the white, English norm.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French mocquer 'deride'.

Rhymes

ad hoc, amok, Bangkok, baroque, belle époque, bloc, block, bock, brock, chock, chock-a-block, clock, doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, hock, hough, interlock, jock, knock, langue d'oc, lock, Locke, Médoc, nock, o'clock, pock, post hoc, roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, Spock, stock, wok, yapok

Definition of mock in US English:

mock

verbmɑkmäk

[with object]

1Tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner.
he mocks them as Washington insiders
Example sentencesExamples
- The reproach was lightly mocking and they both laughed.
- We laughed, we mocked, we teased, we made fun of each other, we made fun of strangers.
- I worked in talkback radio for several years and when the microphone is off, people like him are openly mocked and laughed at by the hosts.
- It was the first time I started laughing and not to mock something.
- Today millions of unbelievers sit in front of their TV sets laughing and mocking at what once was considered sacred.
- But would you make fun of her, laugh and mock at her?
- None of the people we get on well with are being treated that badly; hassled a bit and teased and mocked, maybe, but not hit or tripped in the corridors.
- Doing so is justifiable cause for being mocked, teased, and otherwise humiliated.
- But most of all, the politically correct do not like being publicly mocked and revealed as ridiculous.
- A very common response to this is essentially to mock this as ridiculous.
- Everyday I had to go through the pain of being mocked and laughed at.
- We may laugh, scowl or mock initially, but eventually we usually recognize them as what they are and move on.
- We laugh and mock from the moment of their first appearance.
- Later, he had party members laughing as he mocked the premier's economic recovery plan.
- Have you no thought of how your children will be mocked and teased by other children when they're at school?
- Wendy was so supportive as she mocked and laughed at me.
- May be it was just because of her bad mood and hopeless situation but it seemed as if they were laughing sinisterly and mocking at her.
- I confess, that while we did not mock, we did laugh out loud at the protesters.
- The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film.
Synonyms
ridicule, jeer at, sneer at, deride, treat with contempt, treat contemptuously, scorn, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, make jokes about, laugh to scorn, scoff at, pillory, be sarcastic about, tease, taunt, make a monkey of, rag, chaff, jibe at
sneering, derisive, contemptuous, scornful, sardonic, insulting, satirical, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, teasing, taunting
1. 1.1 Make (something) seem laughably unreal or impossible.
  at Christmas, arguments and friction mock our pretense of peace
  Example sentencesExamples
  But the reality on the ground mocks those assertions.
  But if the past is any guide, the left will succeed once again in blocking the nomination of a minority judicial candidate whose success mocks their mantra that minorities can't make it in America.
  But today the daily panic and the long line of citizens testing for anthrax mocks this misplaced confidence.
  His work mocks our desire for a safe, fantasy non-place for our garbage.
  This is the time to decide whether this country and, by logical extension, the fate of the world should be in the hands of a leader whose essential mode of governance mocks the ideals of a free society.
  The phenomenon runs deep; it mocks political barriers and reaches all circles.
  But the ingrained assumption that we are legislator, judge, jury and executioner mocks any notion of global order.
  The music mocks the pompous words with its crude, plodding scales, and speaks of horror rather than triumph.
  Democracy works by keeping leaders accountable and a campaign that consists of little more than photo opportunities mocks democracy, period.
  It mocks principles of justice, including basic norms of fairness, as well the underlying basis of contract law, which is the orderly regulation and development of commercial life.
2. 1.2 Mimic (someone or something) scornfully or contemptuously.
  Example sentencesExamples
  I mimicked the innocent grin she displayed herself moments ago, mocking her now displeased demeanor.
  When he looked up, he saw Kerna mocking him, imitating a woman drinking tea on the same log before the thicket.
  The children burst out laughing when she mocked the way some people took food, comparing it to the cows chewing its cud.
  Synonyms
  parody, ape, guy, take off, caricature, satirize, lampoon, imitate, mimic

adjectivemɑkmäk

1attributive Not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive.
a mock-Georgian red brick house
Jim threw up his hands in mock horror
Example sentencesExamples
- Mattie gasped, fluttering a hand over his heart, his large eyes growing wide in mock horror.
- She gasped in mock horror, widening her eyes and her mouth forming an ‘o’ shape.
- The popularity of this enduring musical is evident in the audience, who clap and cheer every song and gasp in mock horror at the untimely death of one of the heroes at the close of the play.
- She feigned shock and gasped in mock horror.
- The mock smoking group showed higher accuracy after smoking a real cigarette than after mock smoking, however their response times remained unaffected.
- I sat up so I could see her, a look of mock horror on my face.
- ‘What are you implying,’ roars the actor in mock horror.
- Jay widened his eyes in mock horror, holding his hands up in front of his chest.
- We ate fish served with a salad and baked potatoes, followed by a dessert of real strawberries in mock cream (made up from powdered milk).
- She looked at me in mock horror, and threw her pillow at me.
- The party routinely sets the agenda for new attacks on welfare and immigrants, to which the other parties adapt while holding up their hands in mock horror.
- As the cop turns to leave, the punk's screams change from mock protest to real anger.
- ‘It's all the things that I find most horrifying,’ says Homes, with mock horror.
- Matt opened his eyes wide and turned to me in mock horror.
- Arturo raised his hands to his mouth in mock horror.
- They screamed in mock horror when they went past the roaring Abominable snowman and leaned into every turn.
- The boys looked at Will in mock horror and disgust, moving away from Will ever so slightly in supposed contempt.
- Holly brought a hand to her mouth in mock horror.
- She slapped her hands to her cheeks in mock horror.
Synonyms
imitation, artificial, man-made, manufactured, simulated, synthetic, ersatz, plastic, so-called, fake, false, faux, reproduction, replica, facsimile, dummy, model, toy, make-believe, sham, spurious, bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent, forged, pseudo, pretended
1. 1.1 (of an examination, battle, etc.) arranged for training or practice, or performed as a demonstration.
  Dukakis will have a mock debate with Barnett
  Example sentencesExamples
  And the Club offer mock interviews to pupils who are preparing to start jobs or university.
  Various re-enactment groups, from Vikings to 20th century, will liven up the event with mock battles and drills.
  The competition consists of the school teams going head to head in a mock trial with a real judge acting as adjudicator.
  As groups of youths prepared for a carnivalesque mock battle that was to have been the popular centre-piece for one of these festivals, the celebrations turned into a riot.
  She began to punch and kick the air in mock battle.
  Artificial lakes were often created and ships conducted a mock battle (called the Naumachia).
  He will be a fine knight, if his show at the mock battle was not a fluke.
  In this mock battle, the men try their best not to get captured.
  So they put me through a mock interview and at the end of it I was invited and then offered the position.
  Last month re-enactors staged a mock battle at the site, as a testing ground before the full festival on September 23 and 24 next year.
  Go through a mock interview with a friend or peer.
  Students walked to the stage and faced this mock interview under the full glare of those who had gathered at the college auditorium.
  This video is funny, like the guys on donkeys, but becomes chilling as the children engage in their mock battle.
  Instead, faces decorated in warrior paint, the participants enact mock battle situations in their movements, exercising their frustrations in a better way.
  We have mock battles with each other on a daily basis.
  It was armed with a cache of stuffed animals and sparkles with the intent of staging a mock siege of the fenced-in leaders.
  Since then, he has had to undergo a number of interviews, mock breakdown scenarios and mechanical tests.
  With mock examinations and mid-term breaks over the next few weeks very few games have been arranged.
  The final module is on interview preparation, including mock exercises and exam papers.
  The mock battle began with shots shouted back and forth.
  Synonyms
  simulated, feigned, pretended, practice, trial, make-believe

nounmɑkmäk

dated

An object of derision.
he has become the mock of all his contemporaries

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French mocquer ‘deride’.

单词	mock
释义	Definition of mock in English: mock verb mɒkmɑk [with object] 1Tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner. opposition MPs mocked the government's decision Example sentencesExamples The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film. Everyday I had to go through the pain of being mocked and laughed at. Have you no thought of how your children will be mocked and teased by other children when they're at school? Later, he had party members laughing as he mocked the premier's economic recovery plan. A very common response to this is essentially to mock this as ridiculous. We laughed, we mocked, we teased, we made fun of each other, we made fun of strangers. We may laugh, scowl or mock initially, but eventually we usually recognize them as what they are and move on. None of the people we get on well with are being treated that badly; hassled a bit and teased and mocked, maybe, but not hit or tripped in the corridors. The reproach was lightly mocking and they both laughed. May be it was just because of her bad mood and hopeless situation but it seemed as if they were laughing sinisterly and mocking at her. Wendy was so supportive as she mocked and laughed at me. But would you make fun of her, laugh and mock at her? But most of all, the politically correct do not like being publicly mocked and revealed as ridiculous. Doing so is justifiable cause for being mocked, teased, and otherwise humiliated. We laugh and mock from the moment of their first appearance. Today millions of unbelievers sit in front of their TV sets laughing and mocking at what once was considered sacred. I confess, that while we did not mock, we did laugh out loud at the protesters. It was the first time I started laughing and not to mock something. I worked in talkback radio for several years and when the microphone is off, people like him are openly mocked and laughed at by the hosts. Synonyms ridicule, jeer at, sneer at, deride, treat with contempt, treat contemptuously, scorn, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, make jokes about, laugh to scorn, scoff at, pillory, be sarcastic about, tease, taunt, make a monkey of, rag, chaff, jibe at Australian/New Zealand chiack informal kid, rib, josh, twit British informal wind up, take the mickey out of British vulgar slang take the piss out of North American informal goof on, rag on, razz, pull someone's chain Australian/New Zealand informal poke mullock at, sling off at dated make sport of sneering, derisive, contemptuous, scornful, sardonic, insulting, satirical, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, teasing, taunting 1.1 Make (something) seem laughably unreal or impossible. at Christmas, arguments and friction mock our pretence at peace Example sentencesExamples It mocks principles of justice, including basic norms of fairness, as well the underlying basis of contract law, which is the orderly regulation and development of commercial life. The phenomenon runs deep; it mocks political barriers and reaches all circles. The music mocks the pompous words with its crude, plodding scales, and speaks of horror rather than triumph. His work mocks our desire for a safe, fantasy non-place for our garbage. But today the daily panic and the long line of citizens testing for anthrax mocks this misplaced confidence. But the ingrained assumption that we are legislator, judge, jury and executioner mocks any notion of global order. Democracy works by keeping leaders accountable and a campaign that consists of little more than photo opportunities mocks democracy, period. This is the time to decide whether this country and, by logical extension, the fate of the world should be in the hands of a leader whose essential mode of governance mocks the ideals of a free society. But if the past is any guide, the left will succeed once again in blocking the nomination of a minority judicial candidate whose success mocks their mantra that minorities can't make it in America. But the reality on the ground mocks those assertions. 1.2 Mimic (someone or something) scornfully or contemptuously. he ought to find out who used his name, mocked his voice, and aped a few of his guitar lines Example sentencesExamples When he looked up, he saw Kerna mocking him, imitating a woman drinking tea on the same log before the thicket. I mimicked the innocent grin she displayed herself moments ago, mocking her now displeased demeanor. The children burst out laughing when she mocked the way some people took food, comparing it to the cows chewing its cud. Synonyms parody, ape, guy, take off, caricature, satirize, lampoon, imitate, mimic informal send up, spoof 2mock something upMake a replica or imitation of something. Example sentencesExamples The furniture and decorations were not mocked up in every detail, but the draped table and open Bible were modelled, and the seated woman was represented by a lay figure in a dress. If you need to explain something, try mocking it up and prototyping it rather than writing a longwinded document. As far as this bike goes I originally was going to paint it flat black with hot rod flames but as I was mocking it up it really came into its own. Right now I am getting ready to mock it up to see what it will look like and make some final design decisions. Once your services are provided via interfaces you can mock them up for testing or demo purposes. I got a set of those brackets and I was planning on mocking them up on an empty housing I have. I quickly mocked it up to add a little more life to the site and to replace the button that was there before. I played it into a computer and then a friend of mine had this computer that could bring in all kinds of synthetic instruments, so we sort of mocked it up, using oboes, and cellos. I'll then drop my car off so the fabricator can build them properly with an actual car to mock them up with. If you have a scanner (slide scanner preferred), go ahead and scan your images and mock something up. adjective mɒkmɑk 1attributive Not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive. a mock-Georgian red brick house Jim threw up his hands in mock horror Example sentencesExamples Holly brought a hand to her mouth in mock horror. I sat up so I could see her, a look of mock horror on my face. The popularity of this enduring musical is evident in the audience, who clap and cheer every song and gasp in mock horror at the untimely death of one of the heroes at the close of the play. We ate fish served with a salad and baked potatoes, followed by a dessert of real strawberries in mock cream (made up from powdered milk). The party routinely sets the agenda for new attacks on welfare and immigrants, to which the other parties adapt while holding up their hands in mock horror. Mattie gasped, fluttering a hand over his heart, his large eyes growing wide in mock horror. The boys looked at Will in mock horror and disgust, moving away from Will ever so slightly in supposed contempt. ‘What are you implying,’ roars the actor in mock horror. She looked at me in mock horror, and threw her pillow at me. Arturo raised his hands to his mouth in mock horror. ‘It's all the things that I find most horrifying,’ says Homes, with mock horror. She slapped her hands to her cheeks in mock horror. She gasped in mock horror, widening her eyes and her mouth forming an ‘o’ shape. Matt opened his eyes wide and turned to me in mock horror. Jay widened his eyes in mock horror, holding his hands up in front of his chest. As the cop turns to leave, the punk's screams change from mock protest to real anger. She feigned shock and gasped in mock horror. The mock smoking group showed higher accuracy after smoking a real cigarette than after mock smoking, however their response times remained unaffected. They screamed in mock horror when they went past the roaring Abominable snowman and leaned into every turn. Synonyms imitation, artificial, man-made, manufactured, simulated, synthetic, ersatz, plastic, so-called, fake, false, faux, reproduction, replica, facsimile, dummy, model, toy, make-believe, sham, spurious, bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent, forged, pseudo, pretended informal pretend, phoney 1.1 (of an examination, battle, etc.) arranged for training or practice. mock GCSEs Example sentencesExamples The final module is on interview preparation, including mock exercises and exam papers. Instead, faces decorated in warrior paint, the participants enact mock battle situations in their movements, exercising their frustrations in a better way. With mock examinations and mid-term breaks over the next few weeks very few games have been arranged. Last month re-enactors staged a mock battle at the site, as a testing ground before the full festival on September 23 and 24 next year. The mock battle began with shots shouted back and forth. It was armed with a cache of stuffed animals and sparkles with the intent of staging a mock siege of the fenced-in leaders. Students walked to the stage and faced this mock interview under the full glare of those who had gathered at the college auditorium. Artificial lakes were often created and ships conducted a mock battle (called the Naumachia). So they put me through a mock interview and at the end of it I was invited and then offered the position. The competition consists of the school teams going head to head in a mock trial with a real judge acting as adjudicator. Go through a mock interview with a friend or peer. He will be a fine knight, if his show at the mock battle was not a fluke. This video is funny, like the guys on donkeys, but becomes chilling as the children engage in their mock battle. Various re-enactment groups, from Vikings to 20th century, will liven up the event with mock battles and drills. As groups of youths prepared for a carnivalesque mock battle that was to have been the popular centre-piece for one of these festivals, the celebrations turned into a riot. She began to punch and kick the air in mock battle. And the Club offer mock interviews to pupils who are preparing to start jobs or university. In this mock battle, the men try their best not to get captured. Since then, he has had to undergo a number of interviews, mock breakdown scenarios and mechanical tests. We have mock battles with each other on a daily basis. Synonyms simulated, feigned, pretended, practice, trial, make-believe noun mɒkmɑk 1mocksBritish informal Mock examinations. obtaining Grade A in mocks Example sentencesExamples But I don't think most of us were surprised by the results because when we did the mocks, we all did pretty badly,’ she said. ‘Well maybe I've been a bit busy revising because we have the remainder of our mocks in the next week and a half,’ I snapped. She said: ‘I started to do A-levels, but left after the mocks.’ I once took a couple before a history mock because I'd been up late and it was horrible. And by December, GCSE mocks are being sat before the final exam timetables come through in Spring. I better start revising now, I have a business mock exam tomorrow. I get so stressed taking exams that during my mocks it stopped me sleeping and made me physically sick - how can I control this for the real thing? The mocks were soon and if she didn't check this beforehand and it was wrong I'd get a bad mark. 2dated An object of derision. he has become the mock of all his contemporaries Phrases make (a) mock of Hold up to scorn or ridicule. stop making a mock of other people's business Example sentencesExamples Of all the people to make mock of the depravity visited upon those prisoners, a former POW is the last one I'd expect to see doing it. In one point, however, accuracy is well within our reach, and nearly all the cookery books - even those produced under the eyes of great artists - make a mock of it. It was put to him finally: ‘You lost your temper because you believed they were making a mock of you’. After Rosencrantz tells Hamlet of the players' arrival, Polonius enters to tell Hamlet the same thing, which Hamlet makes mock of: ‘I will prophesy, he comes to tell me of the players, mark it.’ He was having a laugh, making mock of his opponent's stature and ranking. I've mentioned that she made mock of him. The broadcaster's Head of Light Entertainment at the time was a cautious man who pondered, on reading the first script, ‘Were we making mock of Britain's Finest Hour?’ Later, we stood in a dark corner in a crowded bar, making mock of everyone we could see. Derivatives mockable adjective Rather than finding quotes that are genuinely worth mocking, the author feels the pressure to find something from his target, and the bar for what's mockable necessarily gets lowered. Example sentencesExamples He narrates a letter home from a dedicated soldier in Vietnam, interspersed with his highly mockable brother back home at the university, and his protest marches. Even some of the most easily mockable aspects of business life - meetings to plan for meetings, mission statements, presentation slides, to name but three - are not complete jokes. I can tell by his tone that this is a mockable offence but, like a Chinaman in a French restaurant, I have no idea what he's talking about. What I do know reminds me of the strident sort of PC left-winger who was embarrassingly mockable, and no one with any sense hung out with. This insular satire, this xenophobic comedy, said that foreigners, insofar as it recognized them, are funny, mockable for the sin of deviating from the white, English norm. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French mocquer 'deride'. Rhymes ad hoc, amok, Bangkok, baroque, belle époque, bloc, block, bock, brock, chock, chock-a-block, clock, doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, hock, hough, interlock, jock, knock, langue d'oc, lock, Locke, Médoc, nock, o'clock, pock, post hoc, roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, Spock, stock, wok, yapok verb.1 phr. Definition of mock in US English: mock verbmɑkmäk [with object] 1Tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner. he mocks them as Washington insiders Example sentencesExamples The reproach was lightly mocking and they both laughed. We laughed, we mocked, we teased, we made fun of each other, we made fun of strangers. I worked in talkback radio for several years and when the microphone is off, people like him are openly mocked and laughed at by the hosts. It was the first time I started laughing and not to mock something. Today millions of unbelievers sit in front of their TV sets laughing and mocking at what once was considered sacred. But would you make fun of her, laugh and mock at her? None of the people we get on well with are being treated that badly; hassled a bit and teased and mocked, maybe, but not hit or tripped in the corridors. Doing so is justifiable cause for being mocked, teased, and otherwise humiliated. But most of all, the politically correct do not like being publicly mocked and revealed as ridiculous. A very common response to this is essentially to mock this as ridiculous. Everyday I had to go through the pain of being mocked and laughed at. We may laugh, scowl or mock initially, but eventually we usually recognize them as what they are and move on. We laugh and mock from the moment of their first appearance. Later, he had party members laughing as he mocked the premier's economic recovery plan. Have you no thought of how your children will be mocked and teased by other children when they're at school? Wendy was so supportive as she mocked and laughed at me. May be it was just because of her bad mood and hopeless situation but it seemed as if they were laughing sinisterly and mocking at her. I confess, that while we did not mock, we did laugh out loud at the protesters. The awkwardness between them soon vanished when they began laughing and mocking the poorly produced film. Synonyms ridicule, jeer at, sneer at, deride, treat with contempt, treat contemptuously, scorn, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, make jokes about, laugh to scorn, scoff at, pillory, be sarcastic about, tease, taunt, make a monkey of, rag, chaff, jibe at sneering, derisive, contemptuous, scornful, sardonic, insulting, satirical, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, teasing, taunting 1.1 Make (something) seem laughably unreal or impossible. at Christmas, arguments and friction mock our pretense of peace Example sentencesExamples But the reality on the ground mocks those assertions. But if the past is any guide, the left will succeed once again in blocking the nomination of a minority judicial candidate whose success mocks their mantra that minorities can't make it in America. But today the daily panic and the long line of citizens testing for anthrax mocks this misplaced confidence. His work mocks our desire for a safe, fantasy non-place for our garbage. This is the time to decide whether this country and, by logical extension, the fate of the world should be in the hands of a leader whose essential mode of governance mocks the ideals of a free society. The phenomenon runs deep; it mocks political barriers and reaches all circles. But the ingrained assumption that we are legislator, judge, jury and executioner mocks any notion of global order. The music mocks the pompous words with its crude, plodding scales, and speaks of horror rather than triumph. Democracy works by keeping leaders accountable and a campaign that consists of little more than photo opportunities mocks democracy, period. It mocks principles of justice, including basic norms of fairness, as well the underlying basis of contract law, which is the orderly regulation and development of commercial life. 1.2 Mimic (someone or something) scornfully or contemptuously. Example sentencesExamples I mimicked the innocent grin she displayed herself moments ago, mocking her now displeased demeanor. When he looked up, he saw Kerna mocking him, imitating a woman drinking tea on the same log before the thicket. The children burst out laughing when she mocked the way some people took food, comparing it to the cows chewing its cud. Synonyms parody, ape, guy, take off, caricature, satirize, lampoon, imitate, mimic adjectivemɑkmäk 1attributive Not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive. a mock-Georgian red brick house Jim threw up his hands in mock horror Example sentencesExamples Mattie gasped, fluttering a hand over his heart, his large eyes growing wide in mock horror. She gasped in mock horror, widening her eyes and her mouth forming an ‘o’ shape. The popularity of this enduring musical is evident in the audience, who clap and cheer every song and gasp in mock horror at the untimely death of one of the heroes at the close of the play. She feigned shock and gasped in mock horror. The mock smoking group showed higher accuracy after smoking a real cigarette than after mock smoking, however their response times remained unaffected. I sat up so I could see her, a look of mock horror on my face. ‘What are you implying,’ roars the actor in mock horror. Jay widened his eyes in mock horror, holding his hands up in front of his chest. We ate fish served with a salad and baked potatoes, followed by a dessert of real strawberries in mock cream (made up from powdered milk). She looked at me in mock horror, and threw her pillow at me. The party routinely sets the agenda for new attacks on welfare and immigrants, to which the other parties adapt while holding up their hands in mock horror. As the cop turns to leave, the punk's screams change from mock protest to real anger. ‘It's all the things that I find most horrifying,’ says Homes, with mock horror. Matt opened his eyes wide and turned to me in mock horror. Arturo raised his hands to his mouth in mock horror. They screamed in mock horror when they went past the roaring Abominable snowman and leaned into every turn. The boys looked at Will in mock horror and disgust, moving away from Will ever so slightly in supposed contempt. Holly brought a hand to her mouth in mock horror. She slapped her hands to her cheeks in mock horror. Synonyms imitation, artificial, man-made, manufactured, simulated, synthetic, ersatz, plastic, so-called, fake, false, faux, reproduction, replica, facsimile, dummy, model, toy, make-believe, sham, spurious, bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent, forged, pseudo, pretended 1.1 (of an examination, battle, etc.) arranged for training or practice, or performed as a demonstration. Dukakis will have a mock debate with Barnett Example sentencesExamples And the Club offer mock interviews to pupils who are preparing to start jobs or university. Various re-enactment groups, from Vikings to 20th century, will liven up the event with mock battles and drills. The competition consists of the school teams going head to head in a mock trial with a real judge acting as adjudicator. As groups of youths prepared for a carnivalesque mock battle that was to have been the popular centre-piece for one of these festivals, the celebrations turned into a riot. She began to punch and kick the air in mock battle. Artificial lakes were often created and ships conducted a mock battle (called the Naumachia). He will be a fine knight, if his show at the mock battle was not a fluke. In this mock battle, the men try their best not to get captured. So they put me through a mock interview and at the end of it I was invited and then offered the position. Last month re-enactors staged a mock battle at the site, as a testing ground before the full festival on September 23 and 24 next year. Go through a mock interview with a friend or peer. Students walked to the stage and faced this mock interview under the full glare of those who had gathered at the college auditorium. This video is funny, like the guys on donkeys, but becomes chilling as the children engage in their mock battle. Instead, faces decorated in warrior paint, the participants enact mock battle situations in their movements, exercising their frustrations in a better way. We have mock battles with each other on a daily basis. It was armed with a cache of stuffed animals and sparkles with the intent of staging a mock siege of the fenced-in leaders. Since then, he has had to undergo a number of interviews, mock breakdown scenarios and mechanical tests. With mock examinations and mid-term breaks over the next few weeks very few games have been arranged. The final module is on interview preparation, including mock exercises and exam papers. The mock battle began with shots shouted back and forth. Synonyms simulated, feigned, pretended, practice, trial, make-believe nounmɑkmäk dated An object of derision. he has become the mock of all his contemporaries Origin Late Middle English: from Old French mocquer ‘deride’.
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