mockingly.html - n.
a bird that mimics the notes of other birds, esp. the American songbird Mimus polyglottos.

mockingly.html - n.
a bird that mimics the notes of other birds, esp. the American songbird Mimus polyglottos.

mockingly.html - v.,
adj., & n. --v.

1 a tr. ridicule; scoff at. b intr. (foll. by at) act with scorn or contempt for.
2 tr. mimic contemptuously.
3 tr. jeer, defy, or delude contemptuously. --attrib.adj. sham, imitation (esp. without intention to deceive); pretended (a mock battle; mock cream).

--n.

1 a thing deserving scorn.
2 (in pl.) colloq. mock examinations.

make mock (or a mock) of ridicule. mock-heroic adj. (of a literary style) burlesquing a heroic style.

--n.

such a style. mock moon paraselene. mock orange a white-flowered heavy-scented shrub, Philadelphus coronarius. mock sun parhelion. mock turtle soup soup made from a calf's head etc. to resemble turtle soup. mock-up an experimental model or replica of a proposed structure etc.

mockable adj. mockingly adv. [ME mokke, mocque f. OF mo(c)quer deride f. Rmc]

mockingly.html - n.
a person who mocks.

put the mockers on sl.
1 bring bad luck to.
2 put a stop to.

mockingly.html - n.
(pl. -ies)
1 a derision, ridicule. b a subject or occasion of this.
2 (often foll. by of) a counterfeit or absurdly inadequate representation.
3 a ludicrously or insultingly futile action etc. [ME f. OF moquerie (as MOCK)]

mockingly.html - n.
a bird that mimics the notes of other birds, esp. the American songbird Mimus polyglottos.