英语词汇“scoff”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

scoff

释义

(often + at) to show contempt for something or speak contemptuously about it

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and those that came to scoff remained to pray — Goldsmith

scoffer noun

scoffing adj and noun

scoffingly adv

an expression of scorn, derision, or contempt; a jeer

archaic an object of mockery or derision

[Middle English scof mockery, scorn, prob of Scandinavian origin]

chiefly Brit, informal to eat (food) greedily, rapidly, or in an ill-mannered way

[prob alteration of Scots and N English scaff, of unknown origin]

chiefly Brit, informal food

[partly from scoff³, partly from Afrikaans skof quarter of a day, meal, from Dutch schoft]

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