单词 | mockery |
释义 | mockeryn. 1. a. Derision, ridicule; a mocking or derisive utterance or action; an instance of mocking. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] hokerOE hethingc1175 scornc1175 gabbinga1225 bourd1320 scoffc1330 illusiona1382 mowinga1382 derisiona1400 mockery?a1439 alluding1535 dor1552 jerking1565 mock1569 frumpery1582 subsannation1587 floutage1600 ridiculous1605 ludibry1637 ridicule1675 razoo1888 stick1956 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) v. 2664 (MED) To gret sclaundre & hyndryng of his name, Arsacides bamaner moquerye Made Demetrius, for despiht & shame, Poorli arraied..to be lad thoruhout al Surrye. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 13020 With sobyrnesse, nor attempraunce, I wyl haue noon acqueyntaunce... I haue off hem but moquerye. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 12 Reynart..shal thynke how he may begyle deceyue and brynge yow to some mockerye. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) liv. 182 Ye paynym dyd gyue it to Huon in a mockery. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. civ All our saiynges were by the Frenche kyng turned into mocquery. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxciijv This was the third mockeri of fortune that chaunced in Fraunce. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G4 The forlorne Maiden, whom your eies haue seene The laughing stocke of fortunes mockeries, Am th'onely daughter of a King and Queene. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 129 Wherefore was I to this keene mockery borne? View more context for this quotation a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 270 Should a man be bidden to..walk steddily on his head, this would justly sound as a mockery. a1719 J. Addison Evid. Christian Relig. vii, in Wks. (1766) III. 317 The insults and mockeries of a crouded Amphitheatre. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator IV. 119 What Occasion have you..to trouble the Gods with Petitions for me, when they have consigned to you the sole Power of making me happy?.. No; such Orizons would be a Mockery both of Heaven and me. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. xx. 163 The heralds of Darius had been put to death with cruel mockery. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 237 Laying himself open to the jeers and mockeries of his rebellious subjects. 1884 Gladstone in West. Daily Press 2 July 3/4 He was sorry that gentlemen with no knowledge of the subject should receive this remark with mockery. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 60/3 The saddest day I have ever known was that one on which the letter came from Tom, written long before his death. It seemed almost like a mockery! 1949 A. Miller Death of Salesman i. 21 Everything I say there's a twist of mockery on his face. I can't get near him. 1991 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 22 Dec. 16/4 Mr. Hall is alert to Trollope's ironic mockery of highfalutin notions of genius and inspiration. b. A person, thing, or action that deserves or occasions contempt or ridicule; an object of derision; a laughing stock. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object deserving derision or ridicule mock1489 mockerya1500 satire1680 a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 93 Or hough myght any man be so light of beleve to take suche mokkaryes for doctryne or suche supersticion for very religion? 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxviij Which thinges are doubtles to all that wise be, a very mockerye. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 13 I conclude, that such fortifications in England are verie skornes and mockeries. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 4 What will be said, what mockery will it be? To want the Bride-groome when the Priest attends To speake the ceremoniall rites of marriage? View more context for this quotation 1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 314 When the name of Jeremy Taylor is no longer remembered with reverence, genius will have become a mockery, and virtue an empty shade. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. x. 311 Let no one yield to sleep, Lest we become the mockery of the foe. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo ii. iv. 142 Our institutions a mockery, our laws a farce. 1992 Accountancy (BNC) Oct. 100 The old saying that a security on a dwelling is ‘as safe as houses’ has become a bit of a mockery. c. to make a mockery of: to cause to appear foolish or absurd. ΚΠ ?c1599 J. Davies & C. Marlowe Epigrammes & Elegies sig. C3v The wasting Hectick and the quartaine feuer, which doth of Phisick make a mockerie. 1607 Trag. Cæsar & Pompey iii. vi. sig. F4v Soft Cæsar do not make a mockery, Of these Prodigious signes sent from the Heauens. 1624 Briefe Information Affaires Palatinate 57 [They] made a mockerie of the said Truce, and continuated their Hostilities. 1711 Spectator No. 48. 2/2 They could not be contented to act Heathen Warriours and such Fellows as Alexander, but must presume to make a Mockery of one of the Quorum. 1798 T. Holcroft Inquisitor iv. i. 38 Tis incredible, I own, that so fair Haired a youth, with so smiling and so smooth a Face, should form stratagems to trample on the Honour, and make a mockery of Don Fernando. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. vii. 143 As if he made a mockery of the very acquirements he boasted of. 1994 Guardian 16 Mar. i. 7/6 A disciplinary case against two midwives who assisted at a water birth has made a mockery of government proposals to give women more choice in childbirth. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > insult > [noun] > an insult bismer971 unworshipc1200 hard wordc1225 despite1297 dishonourc1320 conteckc1380 reproofa1382 filthc1400 rebukec1425 contumelyc1450 probrec1460 reproacha1513 abusion1570 disgrace1586 affront1588 mockery1603 disobligement1635 disobligation1655 contumelacy1657 insult1671 humps and grumps1727 foul-mouthing1821 mudball1846 slam1884 burn1942 a kick in the teeth1972 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > that which is > ludicrously mockery1603 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 127 It is as the ayre invelmorable [read invulnerable], And our vaine blowes malitious mockery. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 398 It were a mockery to make choyce of sicke folkes, and..to put sovereign power into their hands, to the end onely to have them leave it to others. 1692 J. Locke 3rd Let. for Toleration viii. 197 Whether his pretending Gain to them, upon Grounds which he did not believe; or your pretending Gain to them, which no body can believe to be one; be a greater Mockery; you were best look. 1798 Monthly Mag. 6 397 Although suffered to perish almost for the common necessaries, his body was ostentatiously carried to the grave in a hearse, accompanied by the mockery of a mourning-coach. 1852 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xvii. 215 It is mockery, brethren, for a man to speak lightly of that which he cannot know. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xvi. 186 In her bitterness she felt that all rejoicing was mockery. 1883 Amer. Missionary Mar. 76 Sometimes I feel that it is mockery to offer to read to them, when they are so cold and hungry. 3. Mimicry, imitation; a deceptive or counterfeit representation of something. Now usually depreciative: an outrageous or ludicrous simulation; a travesty. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > silly imitation apishness1533 mockerya1616 apery1616 aping1687 monkeyism1823 monkeyishness1824 apism1843 codding1892 the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun] > unreality > an unreal thing or appearance phantasma1398 chimera1587 mockerya1616 Scotch mist1647 tanquam1654 Plato's cave1683 unreal1825 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] > instance of showa1500 making-upa1525 shine?1529 face1542 varnish1565 copy of one's countenance1579 false1598 mock-beggar1603 mockerya1616 umbrage1634 simulacrum1833 phoney war1939 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. 0. 53 Yet sit and see, Minding true things, by what their Mock'ries bee. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 106 Hence horrible shadow, Vnreall mock'ry hence. View more context for this quotation 1717 A. Pope Elegy Unfortunate Lady in Wks. 361 And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the publick show. 1750 J. Mayhew Disc. Submission 44 Most of their proceeding, in order to get this matter effected; and particularly the court by which the king was at last tried and condemned, was little better than a mere mockery of justice. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 428/1 These Oxford smatchets too, singing through their noses, in mockery of the Dissenters! 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxvii. 225 It was a mockery of warmth, however, scarcely worthy the unpretending sincerity of the great planet. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 189 The unhappy monarch then went through the mockery of a trial for concealing his treasures. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes ii. 31 No, John, if it was not a man it was some huge and grotesque mockery of man. 1958 P. Gibbs Curtains of Yesterday 114 Now in Berlin he did not meet a single German, man or woman, who did not condemn the Peace Terms as an intolerable mockery of justice. 1986 T. O. Echena Crippled Dancer i. iv. 90 Giants founded this village... Now dwarfs live here. We are now a mockery of our former selves. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 138 They do it but in mockerie merement. View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 250 O that I were a mockerie King of Snow, Standing before the sunne of Bullingbrooke, To melt my selfe away in water drops. 1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck i. sig. B Still to be frighted with false apparitions Of pageant Majestie, and new-coynd greatnesse, As if wee were a mockery King in state. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 131/1 Legitimacy is a mockery word in such a case. 1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin xi A monstrous mountainous representation of an awful mockery-goddess. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?a1439 |
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