Meanings
nounscoffer (plural scoffers)
plural scoffers
- One who scoffs or mocks.
Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 267 - UKslangOne who eats a large amount.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounsomeone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
Broader
unpleasant persondisagreeable person
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian присмехулник
- присмехулник (prismehulnik)one who scoffs or mocks
Latin irrīsor
- irrīsorone who scoffs or mocks
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Chicago
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