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mock

   [mok]
verb (used with object)
1.
to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
2.
to ridicule by mimicry of action or speech; mimic derisively.
3.
to mimic, imitate, or counterfeit.
4.
to challenge; defy: His actions mock convention.
5.
to deceive, delude, or disappoint.
verb (used without object)
6.
to use ridicule or derision; scoff; jeer (often followed by at).

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noun
7.
a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
8.
something mocked or derided; an object of derision.
9.
an imitation; counterfeit; fake.
10.
Shipbuilding.
a.
a hard pattern representing the surface of a plate with a warped form, upon which the plate is beaten to shape after furnacing.
b.
bed (def. 23).
adjective
11.
feigned; not real; sham: a mock battle.
Verb phrase
12.
mock up, to build a mock-up of.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English mokken < Middle French mocquer

Related forms
mock·a·ble, adjective
mock·er, noun
mock·ing·ly, adverb
self-mock·ing, adjective
un·mocked, adjective
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un·mock·ing, adjective
un·mock·ing·ly, adverb
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Synonyms
1. deride; taunt, flout, gibe; chaff, tease. See ridicule. 5. cheat, dupe, fool, mislead.

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Example Sentences
  • Only 125000 people voted in the mock election, around 28% of the total eligible.
  • Trainees had fared abysmally in exercises, catching only 10 to 20 percent of mock mines.
  • In this way pranks can be a relatively nonthreatening way to mock bosses, leaders and others in charge.
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World English Dictionary
mock (mɒk)
 
—vb (when intr, often foll by at)
1.  to behave with scorn or contempt (towards); show ridicule (for)
2.  (tr) to imitate, esp in fun; mimic
3.  (tr) to deceive, disappoint, or delude
4.  (tr) to defy or frustrate: the team mocked the visitors' attempt to score
 
—n
5.  the act of mocking
6.  a person or thing mocked
7.  a counterfeit; imitation
8.  informal (often plural) (in England and Wales) the school examinations taken as practice before public examinations
 
—adj
9.  sham or counterfeit
10.  serving as an imitation or substitute, esp for practice purposes: a mock battle; mock finals
 
[C15: from Old French mocquer]
 
'mockable
 
—adj
 
'mocker
 
—n
 
'mocking
 
—n, —adj
 
'mockingly
 
—adv

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Word Origin & History

mock
mid-15c., from M.Fr. mocquer "deride, jeer," from O.Fr., perhaps from V.L. *muccare "to blow the nose" (as a derisive gesture), from L. mucus; or possibly from M.Du. mocken "to mumble" or M.L.G. mucken "grumble." Related: Mocked; mocking; mockingly. Replaced O.E. bysmerian. Sense of "imitating," as
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in mockingbird and mock turtle (1763), is from notion of derisive imitation. The adjective is 1540s, from the noun.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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