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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scoff1
verb speak about something in a scornfully derisive way. noun an expression of scornful derision.

archaic an object of ridicule.

– derivatives
scoffer noun,
scoffing adjective,
scoffingly adverb.
– origin ME: perh. of Scand. origin.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scoff2 informal
verb eat quickly and greedily. noun food.
– origin C18: v. orig. a var. of Scots and dial. scaff; n. from Afrik. schoff, representing Du. schoft ‘quarter of a day, meal’.




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