mocker

Definitions


[ˈmɒkə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who mocks someone or something
(e.g: a mocker of authority)


Phrases:
- put the mockers on

Origin:


[ˈmɒkə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- be dressed in smart or formal clothes
(e.g: he was all mockered up in grey checks and a soft pink tie)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 20th century: of unknown origin. Perhaps from Arabic makwa, a noun of place, from kawā, ‘to press (clothes)’, associated with Egyptian clothes-pressing establishments during the First World War, and from there used by New Zealand soldiers


[ˈmɒkə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- clothing
(e.g: it was enough to get them to put their mocker back on)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 20th century: of unknown origin. Perhaps from Arabic makwa, a noun of place, from kawā, ‘to press (clothes)’, associated with Egyptian clothes-pressing establishments during the First World War, and from there used by New Zealand soldiers




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