scoff Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun showing your contempt by derision
    jeer; scoffing; jeering; mockery.
  2. verb laugh at with contempt and derision
    barrack; jeer; gibe; flout.
    • The crowd jeered at the speaker
  3. verb treat with contemptuous disregard
    flout.
    • flout the rules

WordNet

Scoff noun
Etymology
OE. scof; akin to OFries. schof, OHG. scoph, Icel. skaup, and perh. to E. shove.
Definitions
  1. Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
    With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. Shak.
  2. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
    The scoff of withered age and beardless youth. Cowper.
Scoff intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. Dan. skuffe to deceive, delude, Icel. skopa to scoff, OD. schoppen. See Scoff, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Scoffed present participle & verbal noun Scoffing
Definitions
  1. To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
    Thuth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray. Goldsmith.
    Syn. -- To sneer; mock; gibe; jeer. See Sneer.
Scoff transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.
    To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest. Glanwill.

Webster 1913