1
: to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride - he has been mocked as a mama's boy
- —C. P. Pierce
2
: to disappoint the hopes of - for any government to mock men's hopes with mere words and promises and gestures
- —D. D. Eisenhower
3
: defy, challenge - the unstable, strange new world of subatomic particles that mock all attempts at understanding
- —Philip Howard
4 a
: to imitate (someone or something) closely : mimic - a mockingbird was mocking a cardinal
- —Nelson Hayes
b
: to mimic in sport or derision - followed the old man along the street mocking his gait
: jeer, scoff - she … mocked at his piety as affectation
- —Ferdinand Schevill
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mocker
noun
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mockingly
play
\ˈmä-kiŋ-lē, ˈmȯ-\
adverb