scoffing

Meaning of scoffing

adjective
  1. contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something.
    a scoffing cabin crew tells her there's no shower on the plane
noun
  1. contemptuous ridicule or mockery.
    he had to overcome the scoffing of theoretical physicists
verb, gerund or present participle
  1. speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.
    Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films
    ‘You, a scientist?’ he scoffed

Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin.

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. eat (something) quickly and greedily.
    he can scoff a cannelloni faster than you can drink a pint

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’.

Information about scoffing

  • The plural form of scoffing is: scoffings.
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Hyphenation of scoffing

scoff-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • scoffing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

scoffing synonyms

Meaning jeer:

jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff

Meaning tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner:

mock

Meaning express contempt for; ridicule:

deride

Meaning subject to contemptuous and dismissive language or behaviour:

ridicule

Meaning feel or express contempt or disdain for:

scorn

Meaning order or allow to leave; send away:

dismiss

Meaning dismiss (someone or something) as unimportant:

belittle

Meaning provoke or challenge (someone) with insulting remarks:

taunt

Meaning make fun of or attempt to provoke (a person or animal) in a playful way:

tease

Meaning give a decorative effect to (a painted surface) by applying paint, typically of a different colour, with a rag:

rag

Meaning put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it:

eat

Meaning eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly:

devour

Meaning eat, drink, or ingest (food or drink):

consume

Meaning eat or drink (something) greedily:

guzzle

Meaning eat (something) hurriedly and noisily:

gobble

Meaning fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket:

bolt

Meaning eat food enthusiastically or greedily:

nosh

Meaning pull or knock down (a building):

demolish

Meaning go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:

sink

Meaning swallow (food) hastily or greedily:

gollop

Meaning move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance:

shift

Meaning eat a large amount of (food) greedily:

gorb

Meaning breathe in (air, gas, smoke, etc.):

inhale

Meaning swallow (something) greedily:

ingurgitate

Words that rhyme with scoffing

chafing, disleafing, enchafing, leafing, loafing, nonchafing, overchafing, safing, sheafing, strafing, undeafing, unloafing, vouchsafing, voutsafing, beefing, briefing, debriefing, kerchiefing, mischiefing, reefing, affing, baffing, bepuffing, biffing, bluffing, boffing, buffing, chaffing, chauffing, cheffing, chuffing, cliffing, coffing, coiffing, counterbuffing, crossruffing, cuffing, daffing, destuffing, doffing, duffing, effing, enfeoffing, engraffing, faffing, feoffing, fisticuffing, flaffing, fluffing, fuffing

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