mock
verb
[ mɒk ]
• tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner.
• "opposition MPs mocked the government's decision"
Similar:
ridicule,
jeer at,
sneer at,
deride,
treat with contempt,
treat contemptuously,
scorn,
make fun of,
poke fun at,
laugh at,
make jokes about,
laugh to scorn,
scoff at,
pillory,
be sarcastic about,
tease,
taunt,
make a monkey of,
rag,
chaff,
jibe at,
chiack,
kid,
rib,
josh,
twit,
wind up,
take the mickey out of,
goof on,
rag on,
razz,
pull someone's chain,
poke mullock at,
sling off at,
make sport of,
sneering,
derisive,
contemptuous,
scornful,
sardonic,
insulting,
satirical,
sarcastic,
ironic,
ironical,
quizzical,
teasing,
taunting,
take the piss out of,
• make a replica or imitation of something.
mock
adjective
• not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive.
• "a mock-Georgian red brick house"
Similar:
imitation,
artificial,
man-made,
manufactured,
simulated,
synthetic,
ersatz,
plastic,
so-called,
fake,
false,
faux,
reproduction,
replica,
facsimile,
dummy,
model,
toy,
make-believe,
sham,
spurious,
bogus,
counterfeit,
fraudulent,
forged,
pseudo,
pretended,
pretend,
phoney,
fakey,
mock
noun
• mock examinations.
• "obtaining Grade A in mocks"
• an object of derision.
• "he has become the mock of all his contemporaries"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French mocquer ‘deride’.
