Meanings
nounscoffery (usually uncountable, plural scofferies)
plural scofferies
- uncountableusuallyThe act of scoffing; mockery.
King Henrie the fift in his beginning thought it a meere scofferie to pursue anie fallow deere with hounds or greihounds
1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC
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