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Definition of Scoffer
1. Noun. Someone who eats food rapidly and greedily.
2. Noun. Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision.
Generic synonyms: Disagreeable Person, Unpleasant Person
Derivative terms: Flout, Flout, Jeer, Mock, Mock, Scoff, Scoff
Definition of Scoffer
1. n. One who scoffs.
Definition of Scoffer
1. Noun. One who scoffs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scoffer
1. one that scoffs [n -S] - See also: scoffs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoffer
Literary usage of Scoffer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Fables: With Cuts by John Trotter Brockett (1820)
"A PRESUMPTUOUS scoffer at things sacred took a journey to Delphi, on purpose to
try if he could put a trick upon Apollo. He carried a sparrow in his hand ..."
2. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"If to this you add what Solomon says of scoffers, that they are an abomination
to mankind, let him that thinks fit scoff on, and be a scoffer still; ..."
3. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"... would infallibly have had the sacrilegious scoffer honoured with a lettre-de-cachet.
It cannot be denied that Francis Xavier known in France ; and the ..."
4. Why the World Laughs by Charles Johnston (1912)
"XIV A scoffer ON MOUNT OLYMPUS WITH what joy we would have studied our Greek in
bygone days ... Irreverent he is, no doubt, this scoffer on Mount Olympus, ..."
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