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mockery
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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’.
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