mock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒk/
ipa: /mɔk/
ipa: /mɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: mark
homophone: Mark
homophone: marque (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: mocks
form: mocking
form: mocked
form: mocked
form: mocque
Etymology: From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”).
Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).
Senses: examples: text: To see the life as lively mocked as ever / Still sleep mocked death.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: Mocking marriage with a dame of France.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To mimic, to simulate.
examples: text: [I]ts sculptor well those passions read / Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: […]
ref: 1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 92:
glosses: To create an artistic representation of.
examples: text: And it came to paſſe at noone, that Eliiah mocked them, and ſaide, Crie aloud: for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is purſuing, or hee is in a iourney, or peraduenture he ſleepeth, and muſt be awaked.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 18:27, column 1:
text: Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
ref: 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC:
glosses: To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
examples: text: The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: "It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: And Delilah ſaid vnto Samſon, hitherto thou haſt mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mighteſt be bound.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 16:13, column 2:
text: Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: He will not […] / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
text: ‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.
ref: 1765, Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text, page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello)
text: The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.
ref: 1812, The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature, page 190:
glosses: To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
examples: text: They can also mock other integration points such as backend, database, or any other external resource.
ref: 2016, Murat Yener, Onur Dundar, Expert Android Studio, page 233:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To create a mockup or prototype of.
Synonyms: word: befool
word: frump
word: gibe
word: gird
word: gleek
word: jape
word: jeer
word: jive
word: josh
word: kid
word: lampoon
word: mimic
word: mock
word: needle
word: niggle
word: razz
word: rib
word: roast
word: satirize
word: scoff
word: scorn
word: tease
word: twit
word: bust on
word: clown around
word: make a fool of
word: make fun of
word: make sport of
word: poke fun at
Hypernyms: word: jest
Hyponyms: word: deride
Derived terms: mockable
mockage
mocker
mock out
mockworthy
unmocked
Related terms: word: jeer
word: fool
word: hoodwink
word: prank
word: pull one's leg
word: pull the wool over someone's eyes
word: take for a ride
word: take the mickey
word: take the piss
word: trick
word: wind up
word: yank someone's chain
word: imitate
word: joke