scoff
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scoff englanniksi
A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
(syn)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-1)
(RQ:Le Fanu House)
1852, ''The Dublin University Magazine'' (page 66)
- There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways (..)
(RQ:Cowper Poems)
(RQ:Goldsmith Deserted Village)
To mock; to treat with scorn.
Food.
The act of eating.
2016, Fearne Cotton, ''Cook Happy, Cook Healthy''
- Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, (..)
(quote-journal)
To eat.