Mock
Mock , transitive verb
[French moquer, of uncertain origin; compare OD. mocken to mumble, German mucken, OSw. mucka.]
1.
To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
To see the life as lively mocked as ever
Still sleep mocked death.
Mocking marriage with a dame of France.
2.
To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.
Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
3.
To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.
He will not...
Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
Mock , intransitive verb
To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
She had mocked at his proposal.
Mock , noun
1.
An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
Fools make a mock at sin.
2.
Imitation; mimicry. [Rare] — Crashaw
Mock , adjective
Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
That superior greatness and mock majesty.
Collocations (8)
Mock bishop's weed (Botany) , a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places.
Mock heroic , burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem.
Mock lead , See Blende (a).
Mock nightingale (Zoology) , the European blackcap.
Mock orange (Botany) , a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. Philadelphus coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless.
Mock sun , See Parhelion.
Mock turtle soup , a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup.
Mock velvet , a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.