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▪ I. mocker1|ˈmɒkə(r)|
Forms: 5 moker(e, 6 Sc. mokkar, mockar, 6– mocker.
[f. mock v. + -er1. Cf. F. moqueur.]
1. a. One who mocks, derides, or scoffs.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 14 b, Ware that ye be no mokers for that engendreth hattered. c1500Young Childr. Bk. 59 in Babees Bk., Be no glosere nor no mokere. 1570Buchanan Ane Admonitioun Wks. (1892) 24 Mokkaris of all religioun and vertew. 1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 221 How can he prove that these were outwardly wicked and irreligious, known to be idolaters, drunkards, sorcerers, mockers,..&c. 1683Burnet tr. More's Utopia 39 If the many Mockers of Elisha,..felt the Effect of his Zeal, What will become of one Mocker of so many Friars? 1688South Serm. (1697) II. viii. 347 An Ordinance, in which God is so seldom mocked, but it is to the Mocker's confusion. 1750Byrom Rem. Middleton's Exam. 525 What these Mockers call'd a drunken Fit, Was God's Performance of what Joel writ. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 163 The peculiarities of the Puritan..had been..favourite subjects with mockers. 1903Speaker 10 Oct. 29/1 The enthusiast was a happy man, the mocker was a miserable man.
b. One who deceives or illudes.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vi. 13 If thou diest Before I come, thou art a mocker of my labour.
c. transf.
1611Bible Prov. xx. 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. 1972N. Marsh Tied up in Tinsel vii. 177 ‘He was a wine-bibber,’ Nigel shouted. ‘Wine is a mocker.’
d. Slang phr. to put the mocker(s) on: to thwart or bring bad luck to (a person, enterprise, etc.), to deride, mock, denigrate. Also to have (got) the mockers on, to give (one) the mockers, etc. Cf. mock n.1 1 b.
1923C. Drew Rogues & Ruses 115 They'll ave to race without me to-morrow. I've got a mocker hung on me. 1949L. Glassop Luck Palmer vii. 62 It's that sheila... She's put the mocker on us. 1970‘B. Mather’ Break in Line v. 61 ‘He isn't bad at all.’ ‘Then what did you put the mockers on him for?’ 1970J. Porter Dover strikes Again ii. 36 This investigation had got the mockers on it from the start. 1974‘J. Ross’ Burning of Billy Toober xi. 102, I tailed him... Not to do anything. Just to let him see he was being tailed. To give him the mockers.
2. One who imitates in speech or gesture.
3. A mocking-bird.
1773Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 286 From the attention which the mocker pays to any other sort of..noises. 1859Baird Catal. N. Amer. Birds 253 a, Var. Mimus caudatus Baird Long-Tailed Mocker. 1860― Birds N. Amer. 353 Harporhynchus rufus..Thrasher; Sandy Mocker.
4. Nat. Hist. A mimetic animal.
186.Darwin Orig. Spec. xiii. (1866) 507 The mockers are almost invariably rare insects.
▪ II. mocker2 Austral. and N.Z. slang.|ˈmɒkə(r)|
Also mokker.
[Origin obscure.]
Clothes; a dress. So ˈmockered-up a., dressed up.
1938Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 1014/2 Mockered up, dressed in one's best. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 119 All laired up and its synonym all mockered up may also be noted. 1953― Australia Speaks iv. 106 Mocker, clothes in general. 1959G. Slatter Gun in my Hand 51 Gives us a hand sometimes on the mixer or labourin about. Gets into his old mocker and gets stuck in. 1965M. Shadbolt Among Cinders xxv. 250 She was mockered up to the nines. |