As verbs the difference between scoff and satirize
is that
scoff is to jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision or
scoff can be (british) to eat food quickly while
satirize is to make a satire of; to mock.
As a noun scoff
is derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach or
scoff can be (south africa) food.
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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satirize English
Alternative forms
* (l)
Verb
(en-verb)
To make a satire of; to mock.
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