mockedadj.n.
/mɒkt/, U.S. /mɑkt/ A. adj.
That is mocked; derided, ridiculed; imitated, mimicked. Also with modifying adverb, as much-mocked, etc.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > apish, mocking, or mimicking > aped or caricatured
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apeda1711
burlesqued1766
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. vii. ix. f. 51 Thus the mocked and derided Nicostratus, returned in againe with his Lady and Pyrrhus.
1863 C. Darwin in Nat. Hist. Rev. 3 221 The mocked and common forms must habitually escape.
1968 Listener 27 June 827/3 Pack one of those old-fashioned and much-mocked phrase books.
1989 B. Vickers Returning to Shakespeare 25 Cloten, one of the most ruthlessly mocked prose-characters in the late plays.
1995 Vogue Dec. 61/1 In the greying landscape of TV executives she is a beacon of fun, a much mocked ensemble of coloured hair, bright specs, [etc.].
B. n.
With the: the subject of mockery; (with plural agreement) mocked or mimicked things as a class.
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a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. ii. viii. 131 The mocked have often sallied out in arms against the mockers, and given them battle.
1839 Salem (Mass.) Observer 23 Feb. 1/3 Those who enter the bright city's gate, Ride low on one the mocked and scorned of earth.
1866 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 4) xiii. 503 When the mockers and the mocked are caught and compared they are found to be totally different in essential structure.
1917 T. Hardy Moments of Vision & Misc. Verses 52 Could that song have a mocking note As it trilled out warm from the singer's throat, And who was the mocker and who the mocked.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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