scoff
verb
[ skɒf ]
• speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.
• "Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films"
Similar:
mock,
deride,
ridicule,
sneer at,
be scornful about,
treat contemptuously,
jeer at,
jibe at,
make fun of,
poke fun at,
laugh at,
scorn,
laugh to scorn,
dismiss,
pooh-pooh,
make light of,
belittle,
taunt,
tease,
make a fool of,
rag,
thumb one's nose at,
take the mickey out of,
poke mullock at,
make sport of,
fleer at,
bite one's thumb at,
scout at,
take the piss out of,
scoff
noun
• an expression of scornful derision.
• "scoffs of disbelief"
Origin:
Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin.
scoff
verb
• eat (something) quickly and greedily.
• "he can scoff a cannelloni faster than you can drink a pint"
Similar:
eat,
devour,
consume,
guzzle,
gobble,
wolf down,
polish off,
finish off,
gulp down,
bolt,
put away,
nosh,
get outside of,
pack away,
demolish,
shovel down,
stuff (down),
stuff one's face with,
stuff oneself with,
pig oneself on,
pig out on,
sink,
gollop,
shift,
get one's laughing gear round,
gorb,
scarf (down/up),
snarf (down/up),
inhale,
ingurgitate,
scoff
noun
• food.
• "ice cream was seen as suitable scoff to keep the under-tens quiet"
Similar:
food,
fare,
eatables,
refreshments,
grub,
nosh,
chow,
eats,
feed,
tuck,
chuck,
victuals,
vittles,
meat,
Origin:
late 18th century (as a verb): originally a variant of Scots and dialect scaff . The noun is via Afrikaans from Dutch schoft ‘quarter of a day, work shift’, (by extension) ‘meal’.
