† scofferyn.
Obsolete. rare.
1. A mockery, ridiculous proceeding.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > piece or instance of
mockc1425
scrip1488
derision1535
frump1553
flout1570
scoffery1577
frumpery1582
flouting-stock1593
ludification1623
rision1656
ridicule1710
jab1905
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. vii. f. 108v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I King Henrye..thought it a mere scoffery to pursue any fallow Deare with hounds or greyhounds.
2. Mockery, jeering, derision.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun]
teenOE
scoffing1377
jeering1561
gibing1579
scoffery1589
girding1605
scoffagea1639
jeer1660
scommatism1664
chi-hike1915
signifying1929
picongc1938
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. 50 Skelton a sharpe Satirist, but with more rayling and scoffery then became a Poet Lawreat.
1836 Fraser's Mag. 14 507 With..a scowling scoffery of all the principles which those who gathered together the National Assembly had contemplated.
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