Scoff vs Moke - What's the difference?
scoff | moke |
Derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
* Shakespeare
* 1852 , The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)
An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
* Cowper
To jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision.
* Goldsmith
(British) To eat food quickly.
(South Africa) To eat.
(colloquial, dialectal) A donkey.
*1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Only a Subaltern’, Under the Deodars , Folio Society 2005, p. 68:
*:the Colonel [...] had asked them why the three stars should he, a colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers who put on condemned tin spurs and rode qualified mokes at the hiatused heads of forsaken Black Regiments.
A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
A black person.
As a noun scoff
is derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach or scoff can be (south africa) food.As a verb scoff
is to jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision or scoff can be (british) to eat food quickly.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)- With scoffs , and scorns, and contumelious taunts.
- There were sneers, and scoffs , and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways
- The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.
Synonyms
* derision, ridicule * See alsoVerb
- Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff , remained to pray.
Synonyms
* contemn, deride, sneerEtymology 2
From (etyl).Verb
Synonyms
* (eat quickly) (l), (l) (US)See also
* scuffmoke
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Thackeray)
- (Halliwell)