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mock

  [mok]
Use mocking in a Sentence
–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 fol. by at).
–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 ME mokken < MF mocquer

Related forms:
mock⋅a⋅ble, adjective
mocker, noun
mock⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. deride; taunt, flout, gibe; chaff, tease. See ridicule. 5. cheat, dupe, fool, mislead.
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mock   (mŏk)   
v.   mocked, mock·ing, mocks

v.   tr.
  1. To treat with ridicule or contempt; deride.
    1. To mimic, as in sport or derision. See Synonyms at ridicule.
    2. To imitate; counterfeit.
  3. To frustrate the hopes of; disappoint.
v.   intr.
To express scorn or ridicule; jeer: They mocked at the idea.
n.  
    1. The act of mocking.
    2. Mockery; derision: said it merely in mock.
  2. An object of scorn or derision.
  3. An imitation or a counterfeit.
adj.  Simulated; false; sham: a mock battle.
adv.  In an insincere or pretending manner: mock sorrowful.

[Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer.]
mock'er n., mock'ing·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Mocking

Mock"ing\, a. Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.

Mocking bird (Zo["o]l.), a North American singing bird (Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feathers are partly white. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, found in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies.

Mocking thrush (Zo["o]l.), any species of the genus Harporhynchus, as the brown thrush (H. rufus).

Mocking wren (Zo["o]l.), any American wren of the genus Thryothorus, esp. T. Ludovicianus.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : mocking
Spanish: burlón,
German: spöttisch,
Japanese: ばかにした
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