Scoff vs Derogatory - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between scoff and derogatory is that scoff is derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach or scoff can be (south africa) food while derogatory is a trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history. As a verb scoff is to jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision or scoff can be (british) to eat food quickly. As an adjective derogatory is tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious.
scoff English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) scof/skof, of Scandinavian origin. Compare (etyl) skaup, Danish skuffelse(noun)/skuffe(verb) and Old High German scoph.
Noun
( en noun)
Derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
* Shakespeare
- With scoffs , and scorns, and contumelious taunts.
* 1852 , The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)
- There were sneers, and scoffs , and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways
An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
* Cowper
- The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.
Synonyms
* derision, ridicule
* See also
Verb
To jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision.
* Goldsmith
- Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff , remained to pray.
Synonyms
* contemn, deride, sneer
Etymology 2
From (etyl).
Noun
( en noun)
(South Africa) Food.
Verb
(British) To eat food quickly.
(South Africa) To eat.
Synonyms
* (eat quickly) (l), (l) (US)
See also
* scuff
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derogatory English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious.
* (rfdate) (Blackstone).
- Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not.
* (rfdate) (Macaulay).
- His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other.
(legal) When referring to a clause in a testament: a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless this clause is inserted word for word; – a precaution to guard against later wills extorted by violence, or obtained by suggestion. (rfd-sense)
Usage notes
In common language, particularly used in the phrase “derogatory term”, equivalent to less common pejorative, and in “derogatory statements”, equivalent to more casual offensive.
Derived terms
* derogatory clause/clause derogatory
Noun
(derogatories)
A trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history.
Synonyms
* pejorative
Related terms
* derogate
* derogation
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