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scoff
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[skɒf], (Verb)
Definitions:
- speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way
(e.g: Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films)
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Origin
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Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin
[skɒf], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an expression of scornful derision
(e.g: scoffs of disbelief)
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Origin
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Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin
[skɒf], (Verb)
Definitions:
- eat (something) quickly and greedily
(e.g: he can scoff a cannelloni faster than you can drink a pint)
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Origin
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late 18th century (as a verb): originally a variant of Scots and dialect scaff. The noun is via Afrikaans from Dutch schoft ‘quarter of a day, work shift’, (by extension) ‘meal’
[skɒf], (Noun)
Definitions:
- food
(e.g: ice cream was seen as suitable scoff to keep the under-tens quiet)
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Origin
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late 18th century (as a verb): originally a variant of Scots and dialect scaff. The noun is via Afrikaans from Dutch schoft ‘quarter of a day, work shift’, (by extension) ‘meal’
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