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Entry 7 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Mock

/mäk/ · IPA /mɔk/
01 v. t. To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
imp. & p. p. Mocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Mocking
  1. 1.
    To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
    “To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death.” — Shak.
    “Mocking marriage with a dame of France.” — Shak.
  2. 2.
    To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
    “Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.” — 1 Kings xviii. 27.
    “Let not ambition mock their useful toil.” — Gray.
  3. 3.
    To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
    “Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.” — Judg. xvi. 13.
    “He will not . . . Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.” — Milton.
Syn. To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride.
02 v. i. To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
  1. 1.
    To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
    “When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?” — Job xi. 3.
    “She had mocked at his proposal.” — Froude.
03 n. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
  1. 1.
    An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
    “Fools make a mock at sin.” — Prov. xiv. 9.
  2. 2.
    Imitation; mimicry.[R.]
04 a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
  1. 1.
    Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
    “That superior greatness and mock majesty.” — Spectator.
Phrases & compounds
Mock bishop's weed — a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places.
Mock heroic — burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem.
Mock lead — See Blende (a).
Mock nightingale — the European blackcap.
Mock orange — a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. Philadelphus coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless.
Mock sun — See Parhelion.
Mock turtle soup — a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup.
Mock velvet — a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.