Mock vs Mull - What's the difference?
mock | mull |
An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
Mockery, the act of mocking.
* Bible, Proverbs xiv. 9
A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
To mimic, to simulate.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
* Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 27
* Gray
To tantalise, and disappoint (the hopes of).
* Bible, Judges xvi. 13
* 1597 , William Shakespeare, Henry IV , Part II, Act V, Scene III:
* 1603 , William Shakespeare, Othello , Act III, Scene III:
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost :
* Milton
* 1765 , Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text , page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello):
* 1812 , The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature , page 190:
Imitation, not genuine; fake.
To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
To powder; to pulverize.
To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
To heat and spice something, such as wine.
To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
To dull or stupefy.
A thin, soft muslin.
(uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
(Scotland) A promontory.
A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
dirt; rubbish
As nouns the difference between mock and mull
is that mock is an imitation, usually of lesser quality while mull is trash, garbage, refuse, waste.As a verb mock
is to mimic, to simulate.As an adjective mock
is imitation, not genuine; fake.mock
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- (Crashaw)
- Fools make a mock at sin.
- He got a B in his History mock , but improved to an A in the exam.
Verb
(en verb)- To see the life as lively mocked' as ever / Still sleep ' mocked death.
- Mocking marriage with a dame of France.
- Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.
- Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
- Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.
- And with his spirit sadly I survive, / to mock the expectations of the world; / to frustrate prophecies, and to raze out / rotten opinion
- "It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."
- Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?
- He will not / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
- ‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.
- The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoSee also
* jeerAdjective
(-)mull
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Etymology 1
Verb
(en verb)- to mull a thought or a problem
- he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision
- It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.
Derived terms
* mulled wine, mulled ciderNoun
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- the Mull of Kintyre
Etymology 3
Probably related to mould.Noun
(-)- (Gower)