Scoffer

Scoffer
   Mrs Weller calls her husband ‘scoffer’ in The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens, when he makes a
   sly remark after listening to ‘an edifying discourse’ of Mr Stiggins. She suspects that he is scoffing at what he has just heard, as indeed he is. The slang meaning of ‘scoff’ would allow this term to be used of someone who was eating too much or too quickly.

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  • Scoffer — Scoff er, n. One who scoffs. 2 Pet. iii. 3. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • scoffer — Ⅰ. scoff [1] ► VERB ▪ speak about something in a scornfully derisive way. ► NOUN ▪ an expression of scornful derision. DERIVATIVES scoffer noun. ORIGIN perhaps Scandinavian. Ⅱ …   English terms dictionary

  • scoffer — noun see scoff II …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • scoffer — See scoff1,2. * * * …   Universalium

  • scoffer — noun One who scoffs …   Wiktionary

  • scoffer — scoff·er || skÉ‘fÉ™(r) / skÉ’f n. mocker, scorner, one who ridicules; one who eats voraciously (Slang) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • scoffer — coffers …   Anagrams dictionary

  • scoffer — n. Scorner, mocker, ridiculer, railer, derider, despiser, jeerer …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • scoffer — scoff·er …   English syllables

  • scoffer — noun 1. someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision • Syn: ↑flouter, ↑mocker, ↑jeerer • Derivationally related forms: ↑jeer (for: ↑jeerer), ↑mock …   Useful english dictionary

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