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▪ I. scoffing, vbl. n.|ˈskɒfɪŋ, -ɔː-|
[f. scoff v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of scoff v.1; † a scoff.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 277 Of scornyng and of scoffyng and of vnskilful berynge. 1529More Supplic. Soulys Wks. 332/1 He laith agaynst it nothing but skoffing. 1530Palsgr. 268/1 Scoffynges or tryfles, fredaynes. 1723Swift Epitaph Judge Boat 2 Pray, Gentle-folks, forbear your Scoffing. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. v. i. 425 Men whose vice is to start at vice's scoffing. 1883R. W. Dixon Mano iv. xv. 188 He bitter jests and filthy scoffing made.
b. Comb.: scoffing-stock [cf. laughing-stock], an object of scoffing.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxix. 13 Hee was a scoffing-stock to y⊇ very princes. 1662Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 96 The other Cardinals do but make him their scoffing-stock to laugh at. 1870F. Jacox Recr. Recluse I. iv. 86 This same scoffing-stock of the school..displayed the energetic originality of genius.
▪ II. scoffing, ppl. a.|ˈskɒfɪŋ, -ɔː-|
[f. scoff v.1 + -ing2.]
That scoffs; contemptuous, derisive.
1538Elyot Dict., Scurriliter, in raylynge or scoffyng facion. 1540Palsgr. Acolastus ii. i. H ij b, Dysours or skoffyng fellowes. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (Sommer) 184 b, And so in this iollie scoffing brauerie he went ouer vs all, saying [etc.]. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier B 3, Questioning with one that I met why these women were so cholericke, he, like a skoffing fellow, pointed to a bush of nettles. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 534 Niele, a scoffing Poet in those daies,..wrot thus of them. a1637B. Jonson Discov., Nil gratius (1640) 91 Indeed..nothing is of more credit, or request now, then a petulant paper, or scoffing verses. 1683Soame & Dryden tr. Boileau's Art Poet. iii. 771 A Socrates himself in that loose age, Was made the pastime of a scoffing stage. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. V. 70 The people of the capital had been annoyed by the scoffing way in which foreigners spoke of the principal residence of our sovereigns.
▪ III. scoffing, n. U.S. Tramps' slang.|ˈskɒfɪŋ, -ɔː-|
[f. scoff v.2]
Usu. pl. Food, something to eat.
1907J. London in Cosmopolitan May 17/1 A hard town for ‘scoffings’, was what the hoboes called it [sc. Reno] at that time. 1914Sat. Even. Post 4 Apr. 11/3 Got to throw your feet if yuh want scoffin's. Ibid., You'll have to batter for handouts this mornin'. I'll get my own scoffin's. |