mock
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: mocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mocked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mocque
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mocque
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To mimic, to simulate.
pos: verb
examples: To see the life as lively mocked as ever / Still sleep mocked death.
Mocking marriage with a dame of France.
gloss: To create an artistic representation of.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: [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: […]
gloss: To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
gloss: To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
pos: verb
examples: The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!
"It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."
And Delilah ſaid vnto Samſon, hitherto thou haſt mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mighteſt be bound.
Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?
He will not […] / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.
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.
gloss: To create a mockup or prototype of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They can also mock other integration points such as backend, database, or any other external resource.
gloss: Imitation, not genuine; fake.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: mock leather
mock trial
mock turtle-soup
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
High Row curves from the mock-timbered Cross Keys Inn to the tall and sombre Gainford Hall, today a private farmhouse.
Synonyms: befool
chaff
disparage
forgab
frump
gleek
jape
jeer
jibe
josh
kid
lampoon
mimic
mock
needle
niggle
razz
rib
roast
satirize
scoff
scorn
slag
tease
twit
bust on
extract the urine
clown around
make a fool of
make fun of
make sport of
poke fun at
take the piss
Related words: jeer
fool
hoodwink
prank
pull one's leg
pull the wool over someone's eyes
rip the piss
take for a ride
take the mickey
trick
wind up
yank someone's chain
imitate
joke
Derived words: mockable
mockage
mocker
mock out
mockworthy
unmocked
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