Derided vs Scoffed - What's the difference?
derided | scoffed |
(deride)
To harshly mock; ridicule.
(scoff)
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.
As verbs the difference between derided and scoffed
is that derided is (deride) while scoffed is (scoff).derided
English
Verb
(head)deride
English
Verb
(derid)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* derider * deridinglyExternal links
* * ----scoffed
English
Verb
(head)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.