Scoff vs Gibe - What's the difference?
scoff | gibe |
As a noun scoff is derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach or scoff can be (south africa) food. As a verb scoff is to jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision or scoff can be (british) to eat food quickly. As a proper noun gibe is .
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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gibe English
Alternative forms
* gybe
* jibe
Noun
( en noun)
A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
* 1603 , , Hamlet , act 5, scene 1:
- Hamlet : Alas, poor Yorick! . . . Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Verb
( en-verb)
To perform a jibe (2, 3).
To agree.
- That explanation doesn't gibe with the facts.
To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
(ambitransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.
* Jonathan Swift
- Draw the beasts as I describe them, / From their features, while I gibe them.
* Jonathan Swift
- Fleer and gibe , and laugh and flout.
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