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Scoff vs Cackle - What's the difference?

scoff | cackle |

As nouns the difference between scoff and cackle

is that scoff is derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach or scoff can be (south africa) food while cackle is the cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.

As verbs the difference between scoff and cackle

is that scoff is to jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision or scoff can be (british) to eat food quickly while cackle is to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

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

    cackle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg
  • A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
  • * Shakespeare
    • When every goose is cackling .
  • To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
  • *, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
  • To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
    • (Johnson)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * cluck