mock
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mock/mɒk/
▶verb
- 1 tease scornfully; ridicule.
■ mimic contemptuously.
- 2 (mock something up) make a replica or imitation of something.
- 1 not authentic or real.
- 2 (of an examination, battle, etc.) undertaken for training or practice.
- 1 (mocks) Brit. informal mock examinations.
- 2 dated an object of derision.
– derivatives
mockable adjective,
mocking adjective,
mockingly adverb.
mockable adjective,
mocking adjective,
mockingly adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. mocquer ‘deride’.
'mock' also found in these Oxford entries:
ash
- baffle
- charivari
- defy
- delude
- flout
- folly
- illude
- illusion
- jape
- mock-heroic
- mock moon
- mock orange
- mock sun
- mocktail
- mock turtle soup
- mock-up
- moot
- nibs
- omnium gatherum
- philadelphus
- pillow fight
- piss
- sarcasm
- shiver
- syringa
- trifle
