SCOFF, SCOFFED, SCOFFER, SCOFFING
ADJECTIVES
► BABIST scoffed at, scorned → 17C Sc.
► FRUMPING mocking, scoffing, jeering → 1587
► JEERY scornfully derisive, taunting, scoffing → 1606 obs.
► LUDIBRIOUS full of scorn, inclined to scoff; scornful, mocking → 1641
► OFF-TAKING scoffing, mocking, sarcastic, joking, waggish → 1877 Sc.
► SCOPTIC mocking, scoffing, jesting, satirical → 1670 obs.
NOUNS
► BOURD a scoff → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CHOPPED LIVER something trivial; something to be scoffed at; usually used in the negative → 1954 US sl.
► DIRDUMS ridicule, scoffs, sneers, slanders → 1825 Sc.
► DOR scoff, mockery → 1552 obs.
► GAUD ► GAWD a jest, a scoff; also, an object of mockery → 1440 obs.
► GAUDING a making merry; jesting; scoffing → 1553 obs.
► ILLATRATION a barking against one → 1656 obs.
► JEER the act of jeering; mockery, scoffing, derision → 1660 obs.
► SNOUCH a jeer, jibe, or scoff → 1780
NOUNS – PERSON
► GIBER one who utters jibes and taunts; one who ridicules or sneers at another; a scoffer → 1563
► HICKSCORNER the name of a character in an allegorical drama of the same title printed by Wynkyn de Worde, represented as a travelled libertine who scoffs at religion; hence, a scoffer in general → 1530 obs.
► LATRATOR one who barks, rails, or scoffs → 1623 obs.
► LUCIAN a witty scoffer → 1752
► OFFTAKE a scoffer, a mocker, one who takes others off by ridicule; a mimic → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► TAUNTRESS a woman who taunts, scoffs, or jeers → 1557
VERBS
► BABBIS to scoff, to gibe → 1825 Sc. obs.
► BABISH to scoff at, to scorn; to treat with contempt as mere children → 1460 obs.
► FRUMP to scoff, to mock → 1566 obs.
► GAB to speak mockingly, to scoff → 1225 obs.
► GAFF to talk loudly and merrily; to jest, to banter; to jeer, to scoff at → 1876 Eng. dial.
► GALL AT to scoff at → 1599 obs.
► GAUD ► GAWD to make merry; to sport, to jest; to scoff at → 1532 obs.
► GECK AT to scoff at; to use mocking language or gestures towards → 1603 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ILLATRATE to scoff or bark at a thing → 1623 obs.
► JAPE to mock, to deride, to scoff; to insult → 1440 obs.
► LUCIAN IT to play the scoffer → 1655 obs.
► MAKE A TUSH AT to scoff at, to pooh-pooh → 1600 obs.
► RAILLY to mock, to scoff, to jeer at → 1678 obs.
► SCAFF to scoff, to ridicule → 1844 Sc.
► SCAN to scoff; to scold → 1904 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► SCOFFLE to speak contemptuously or mockingly; to ridicule; to scoff → 1927 Amer. dial.
► SCORN AT to jeer, to scoff → 1724 Sc.
► SCRIP to make a mocking or scornful remark or facial expression; to scoff → 1572 Sc. obs.
► TIT to twit, to upbraid; to scoff or jeer at → 1622 obs.