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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.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

mock  (v)
c.1440, 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." Replaced O.E. bysmerian. Sense of "imitating," as in mocking-bird (1676) and mock turtle (1763), is from notion of derisive imitation. The adj. is 1548, from the noun. Mockery is attested from 1426. Mock-up "model, simulation" is from 1920.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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