Mockery vs Prank - What's the difference?
mockery | prank |
The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
(obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
(obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.
*, II.4.2.ii:
A practical joke or mischievous trick.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.
* Spenser
* 1748 , , B:II
* 1880 , For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli , lines 2–3
To make ostentatious show.
* M. Arnold
To perform a practical joke on; to trick.
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(slang) To call someone's phone and promptly hang up
(obsolete) Full of gambols or tricks.
(Webster 1913)
English transitive verbs
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between mockery and prank
is that mockery is (obsolete) something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc while prank is (obsolete) full of gambols or tricks.As nouns the difference between mockery and prank
is that mockery is the action of mocking; ridicule, derision while prank is (obsolete) an evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.As a verb prank is
to adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.As an adjective prank is
(obsolete) full of gambols or tricks.mockery
English
Noun
(mockeries)- The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.
Usage notes
* We often use make a mockery' of someone or something, meaning to ' mock them. See alsoSynonyms
* See alsoprank
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hercules, after all his mad pranks upon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of hellebor, which an Antieyrian administered unto him.
- His pranks have been too broad to bear with.
- The harpies played their accustomed pranks .
- Pranks may be funny, but remember that some people are aggressive.
- He pulled a gruesome prank on his sister.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* prankish * pranksome * pranksterVerb
- In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank .
- And there a Sea?on atween June and May,
- Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half imbrown'd,
- A li?tle?s Climate made, where, Sooth to ?ay,
- No living Wight could work, ne cared even for Play.
- ''Flora, wanton-eyed
- ''For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:
- White houses prank where once were huts.
citation
- Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up.
- I don't have your number in my phone, can you prank me?