Scoff vs Her - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between scoff and her is that scoff is derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach or scoff can be (south africa) food while her is . As verbs the difference between scoff and her is that scoff is to jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision or scoff can be (british) to eat food quickly while her is ( lb).
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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her Alternative forms
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Determiner
Belonging to her.
- This is her book
Pronoun
The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
- Give it to her (after preposition)
- He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
- He treated her for a cold (direct object)
* February 1896 , Ground-swells'', by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine ; page 183:
- "Then what became of her ?"
- "Her'? Which ‘'''her'''’? The park is full of ‘' hers ’."
- "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
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