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Definition: Mock |
MockAdjective1. Constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle". Verb1. Treat with contempt; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles". 2. Imitate (a person, a manner, etc.), esp. for satirical effect. 3. Imitate with mockery and derision; "The children mocked their handicapped classmate". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Mock \Mock\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Mocked; Mocking.]. (references) |
Synonyms: MockSynonyms: bemock (v), mime (v), mimic (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais honte, false shame. |
Amusement | Smile, simper, smirk; grin, grin like a Cheshire cat; mock, laugh in one's sleeve; laugh, laugh outright; giggle, titter, crow, snicker, chuckle, cackle; burst out, burst into a fit of laughter; shout, split, roar. |
Courage | Verb: be courageous; Adjective: dare, venture, make bold; face danger, front danger, affront danger, confront danger, brave danger, defy danger, despise danger, mock danger; look in the face; look full in the face, look boldly in the face, look danger in the face; face; meet, meet in front; brave, beard; defy. |
Deception | Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem. |
Disrespect | Have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn; (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob. |
Error | Illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal; (imaginary); spurious; deceitful; perverted. |
Imitation | Mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act; (drama); represent; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque. |
Adjective: imitated; Verb: mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on. | |
Ridicule | Verb: ridicule, deride, mock, taunt; laugh in one's sleeve; tease, badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze; tehee; fleer; show up. |
Adjective: derisory, derisive; mock, mocking; sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic; scurrilous; (disrespectful). | |
Ridiculousness | Extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic. |
Similarity | Approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mock |
| English words defined with "mock": bauble, belling ♦ callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, crown of thorns ♦ feint, Fleer ♦ Geck, genus Philadelphus ♦ Illude ♦ Jereed ♦ Mock heroic, Mockado, Mocked, Mockish, moot court ♦ naumachia, naumachy ♦ Paraselene, Peter Funk, Pipe tree, Puppet show ♦ ridicule ♦ Saxifragaceous, Sciomachy, shivaree, Skimmington, Supernaculum ♦ To make game of, To trifle with. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mock": Anthia ♦ Beefington ♦ CONTESTANT COORDINATOR ♦ Dalkey ♦ Harapha ♦ Long Words ♦ Mamamouchi, Mendoza, mock gauze, mock leno, Mock Lisp, Mutton-eating King ♦ SCALD MISERABLES, Swinge-buckler ♦ WRITER, TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mock": Scorn. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You mock my pain (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) I'm going to mock them in my comic strip (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Why do you mock me, O Lord (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) We mock what we don't understand (Spies Like Us; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel) We used to mock him, but that bible stopped a bullet (Heist; writing credit: David Mamet) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Mock Auctioneer (1926) You Don't Know Jack!: Mock 2 (2000) | |
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![]() | Technician Ray Mock grafts foreign sweetpotato germplasm onto a virus-sensitive indicator plant at the new Beltsville plant quarantine facility. Credit: USDA ARS News. | Wild Mock Orange (Philadelphus lewisii) at Fredenberg Butte. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | |
![]() | Mock wedding, N Street SW, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | 21/2 year old Jean Hunter crying, wearing an oversized crown and holding a scepter at a mock coronation at the Madison Square Boys Club, New York City] / World Telegram & Sun p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Fred Palumbo.. |
![]() | University of Texas Students for a Democratic Society members protesting the war in Vietnam by carrying a poster and mock casket while other students jeer. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Astronauts Edward H. White and James A. McDivitt with "Complex Leader" Gunther Wandt prepare for Gemini-4 mock simulated test at Cape Kennedy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Play | Caption |
| Snicker; laughing; belittle; deride; jeer; mock; taunt; ridicule; mean; mocking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. |
| Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | The Mock Turtle went on. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They mock and jeer at the lost souls whom they dragged down to ruin |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. |
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Human Rights | Jamaica | The report detailed frequent and credible allegations of police abuse in lockups, including severe beatings, mock executions, and rape. (references) |
Turkey | Other methods used are forced prolonged standing, isolation, loud music, witnessing or hearing incidents of torture, being driven to the countryside for a mock execution, and threats to detainees or their family members. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | For example, after his June 2000 conviction, Abduvahid Yuldashev's wife claimed that when she turned to her mahalla committee for help after her husband was arrested, she was subjected to a mock trial and subsequently ostracized. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mock" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 76.34% of the time. "Mock" is used about 654 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 76.34% | 499 | 12,058 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 15.88% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.48% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.31% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 654 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mock" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mock | Last name | 7,000 | 1,864 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "mock": make a mock of smth. ♦ make mock of smb. ♦ mock at ♦ mock at smb. ♦ mock azalia ♦ mock bishop's weed ♦ mock cake ♦ mock fashioning mark ♦ mock fight ♦ mock fun ♦ mock gauze ♦ mock grandrelle ♦ mock heroic ♦ mock lead ♦ mock leno ♦ mock Lisp ♦ mock modesty ♦ mock moon ♦ mock nightingale ♦ mock orange ♦ mock ore,mock lead ♦ mock privet ♦ mock sun ♦ mock title ♦ mock tragedy ♦ mock turtle soup ♦ mock twist ♦ mock up ♦ mock velvet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mock": mock-abasement, mock-alarm, mock-apologetic, mock-apologia, mock-astonishment, mock-attacks, mock-battles, mock-boxing, mock-boy, mock-classical, mock-clerical, mock-cockney, mock-combatants, mock-comfort, mock-compliments, mock-concern, mock-conspiratorially, mock-consternation, mock-courtly, mock-dead, mock-deference, mock-disabled, mock-disdain, mock-disgusting, Mock-disneyland, mock-documentary, mock-dodged, mock-doric, mock-election, mock-elevated, mock-emperors, mock-engagements, mock-epic, mock-exam, mock-exasperation, mock-ferocious, mock-ferocity, mock-flesh, mock-french, mock-funeral, mock-georgian, mock-gothic, mock-gratitude, mock-gravity, mock-heroic, mock-heroic poem, mock-heroics, mock-hippy, mock-horrified, mock-horror, mock-humble, mock-infected, mock-ingratiatingly, mock-innocence, mock-innocently, mock-italian, mock-jacobean, mock-leather, mock-lecherous, mock-leer, mock-lightly, mock-macho, mock-mahogany, mock-male, mock-mediaeval, mock-medieval, mock-miracle, mock-modest, mock-oedipal, mock-orange, mock-orgasm, mock-outrage, mock-palazzo, mock-penis, mock-pleated, mock-pocket, mock-polite, mock-protest, mock-punches, mock-raping, mock-reality, mock-rejection, mock-reproach, mock-reproachful, mock-respect, mock-romance, mock-romanesque, mock-serious, mock-seriousness, mock-severe, mock-severely, mock-sheepskin, mock-simpleton, mock-solemnity, mock-soviet, Mock-stealer, mock-stern, mock-sternly, mock-sun, mock-surrender, mock-temple, mock-textbook, mock-thirties-liner, mock-tortoiseshell, mock-tragic, mock-transfected, mock-transfection, mock-treated, Mock-tudor, mock-turtlesoup, mock-up, mock-ups, mock-useful, mock-victorian, Mock-wembley, mock-wooden, mock-working. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
2003 draft mock nba | 4,829 | mock orange shrub | 28 |
nba draft mock | 2,095 | mock test theory | 27 |
mock draft | 323 | 2003 draft mock mlb | 24 |
fantasy football mock draft | 202 | mock orange tree | 24 |
mock orange | 177 | apple mock pie | 21 |
2003 draft mock nhl | 174 | mock turtleneck | 18 |
2003 mock draft | 129 | 2002 draft mock nba | 17 |
mock rock | 117 | mock trading | 17 |
2004 draft mock nfl | 109 | mock orange plant | 17 |
nhl mock draft | 93 | driving mock test theory | 17 |
mock trial | 93 | 2005 draft mock nba | 16 |
nfl 2003 mock draft | 74 | mock interview | 15 |
2004 draft mock nba | 67 | draft fantasy mock | 15 |
mock | 38 | draft fantasy mock nfl | 15 |
nfl mock draft | 35 | 2003 draft fantasy mock nfl | 14 |
2003 draft draft mock nba | 34 | 2003 draft espn mock nba | 14 |
barbara mock | 30 | 2003 draft mock nba updated | 14 |
bush mock orange | 30 | 2004 draft mock | 13 |
mock turtle | 28 | mock wedding | 13 |
2003 mock nba | 28 | draft football mock | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tallje (banter, derision, dig, fleer, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jesting, jibe, joke, mockery, pleasantry, quiz, ridicule, satire, scoff, sneer, snook, Snoot, spoof, sport, taunt, twit), tallem (flout, fool about, fool around, hoax, jape, jeer, joke, laugh at, make fun of, make smb. laugh, make sport of, quiz, scoff), tall (banter, deride, fleer, jeer, make fun of, ridicule, scoff, taunt), surrogat (analogue, bastard, ersatz, replacement, substitute, surrogate), qesh (banter, laugh), qesëndisje, qesëndis (make mock of smb.), përqeshje (derision, flout, mockery, mop, scoff, sneering, taunt), përqesh (deride, scoff at, taunt), objekt talljeje (mockery), imitoj (ape, copy, echo, follow suit, forge, imitate, mimic), i simuluar, i rremë (affected, delusive, delusory, fallible, false, fictitious, fictive, hollow, illusive, lying, mendacious, meretricious, out of whole cloth, pasteboard, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plastic, pseudo, simulated, spoof, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), i gënjeshtërt (false, illusive, illusory, lying, truthless, untrue), gjoja (allegedly, as if, as though, in a way, ostensibly, professedly, quasi, seeming, supposing, would be). (various references) | |
Arabic | هزأ (flout, poke fun), قلد (affect, ape, burlesque, copy, echo, fake, follow, imitate, inaugurate, mime, mimic, parrot, present, send up, sham, simulate, vest), حاكى بسخرية (mimic, spoof), تحدى بإزدراء, سخر (befool, chip, debunk, deride, fleer, guy, jape, jeer, kid, lampoon, laugh at, make a game of, make fun of, mimic, monkey, override, persiflage, pillory, poke fun, pooh pooh, quip, quiz, rally, rib, ridicule, satirize, scoff, send up, smile, snap, sneer, snigger, taunt, tee-hee, twit), زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | задявам се (badinage, banter, chaff), имитирам подигравателно, имитация (counterfeit, ersatz, fake, imitation, pinchbeck, repetition, replication, sham, simulation), пародия (burlesque, mimicry, parody, put on, rib, send up, skit, take off, travesty), подигравам (bosh, fool, laugh at, make fun of, ridicule, roast, send up), подигравка (dig, flout, gibe, gird, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, mockery, ridicule, rub, scoff, sneer, snub, sport, twit, wipe), посмешище (derision, joke, laughingstock, mockery, ridicule, scoff, sight, sport), присмивам се на (laugh at, poke fun at), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), лъжлив (bogus, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, double, double-tongued, elusory, false, lying, mendacious, misleading, perjurious, phantasmagoric, pretended, quack, shifty, spoof, tinsel, truthless, untrue, untruthful, vain), фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, false, fictitious, hollow, imitative, insincere, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), мамя (cozen, deceive, dupe, fiddle, flim-flam, gag, gouge, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, play along, play possum with, rook, shark, stick, string along, take, twist, victimize), мним (make believe, ostensible, professed, quasi-, seeming, supposed), насмешка (laugh, mockery, quiz, scorn), неверен (disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, inconstant, incorrect, mendacious, perfidious, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue, wrongful), обект на подигравки (joke), осмивам (deride, lampoon, ridicule, satirize, scoff, sneer, take off, twit), осмиване (mockery, ridicule), осуетявам (abort, baffle, disappoint, foil, frustrate, pour cold water on, scatter, scotch, short circuit, sink, spoil, wash out), присмиване (derision, mockery). (various references) | |
Chinese | 愚弄 (derision, ridicule), 嘲笑 (Derisive, flout, Flouted, Flouting, Gibed, Gibing, jeer, Jeered, jeering, Jeers, Mocked, mocking), 嘲 (ridicule, to ridicule). (various references) | |
Czech | tropit si žerty (poke fun), posmívat se (gibe, jeer, jibber, ridicule, taunt), posmìch (derision, jeer, ridicule, scoff, sneer, taunt), podvádìt (betray, deceive, double cross, finagle, juggle, sharp, trick), nepravý (artificial, dummy, faked, forged, pinchbeck, pseudo, spurious, wrong), napodobení (imitation, sham, simulacrum, simulation), klamat (belie, bluff, deceive, hocus, trick), falešný (bad, bogus, brummagem, catty, double faced, dud, fake, false, false-hearted, forged, made up, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseudo, put up, sham, spurious, two faced, wrong). (various references) | |
Danish | model i fuld størrelse (full-scale model, mock-up), model i forholdet 1:1 (full-scale model, mock-up), mock leno (mock gauze, mock leno), mock gauze (mock gauze, mock leno), medio (medio twist, medio yarn, mock water), imiteret søm (mock seam), attrap (decoy, mock-up), dummy (dummy, mock-up), falsk blyglans (blackjack, blende, false galena, jack, mock lead, mock ore, pseudogalena, sphalerite, steel jack, zinc blende), falsk maane (mock moon), falsk randsyning (mock welt), falsk søm (mock seam), falsk sol (mock sun, sun dog), formmodel (mock-up), horisontalsolcirkel (mock-sun ring, parhelic circle), arkitektonisk model (architectural model, mock up, model, scale model), imiteret formindskelse (mock fashioning), uaegte jasmin (mock orange), kædestolsstrikket plissé (mock-pleated fabric, pleated fabric, warp-knitted pleated fabric), pibeved (mock orange), spindekage til farvning (mock cake), styringsattrap (mock control), imiterede dækblomster (mock fashioning mark). (various references) | |
Dutch | spotten (jeer at, make fun of), honen (jeer at, make fun of), bespotten (deride, jeer at, make fun of, quip, ridicule). (various references) | |
Esperanto | moki pri (deride, quip, ridicule), moki (jeer at, make fun of), primoki (deride, quip, ridicule). (various references) | |
Faeroese | háða (jeer at, make fun of). (various references) | |
Finnish | pilkata (deride, jeer at, make fun of, scoff). (various references) | |
French | tourner en ridicule, se moquer de, railler, parodier, imiter, faux, duper, défier avec méprise, bafouer. (various references) | |
German | verspotten (deride, gibe, jeer at, lampoon, make fun of, ridicule, satirize, taunt, to deride, to flout, to lampoon, to mock, to ridicule, to satirize), spotten (be derisive, deride, derision, flout, gibe, jape, jeer, jeer at, jibe, make fun of, mock fun, mockery, ridicule, scoff, scorn, sneer, taunt, to mock). (various references) | |
Greek | περιγελώ (deride, jeer, razz, ridicule, scoff). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזויף (bastard, bogus, counterfeit, dummy, fake, false, forged, made up, meretricious, postiche, snide, specious, spurious), מ"ומ" (dummy, false, feigned, imaginary), מ'וחך (absurd, farcical, grotesque, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous, stupid), ללעו' (deride, gibe, guy, jeer, laugh at, make fun of, ridicule, scoff, sneer), לל'ל' (gibe, poke fun, rally, rib, scoff, sneer, taunt), לתעתע (deceive, deride, lead astray, swindle), לקלס (deride, scorn), לאפוז (jeer, laugh at, scoff, sneer), ל"תלוצץ (banter, jape, jest, joke), ל"תקלס (scoff), ל'לו' (derision, irony, jeer, laugh at, mockery, ridicule, sneer, taunt), לצחוק (deride, jeer, jest, laugh), לס וט (annoy, irritate, sneer, tease). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utánzott (bogus, counterfeit, false, imitative, unoriginal). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengejek (deride, hoot, mocking, ridicule), tipuan (deceitful, sham, swindle), pura-pura (affect, affection, illusive, ostensible, pretend, pretended, quasi), ejek (make fun of, redicule). (various references) | |
Italian | scherzoso (gamesome, jocular, joking, laughing, playful, sportive, waggish), ironico (ironic, ironical), imitazione (fake, imitation, impersonation), imitato (counterfeit, false, mimic, unlifelike), imitare (ape, copy, follow, forge, imitate, mimic), finto (artificial, bogus, double, dummy, false, feigned, fictious, insincere, ostensible, pretended, pseudo, sham), farsi beffa di, falso (apocryphal, counterfeit, deceitful, disingenuous, dud, dummy, erroneous, faithless, fake, fallacious, false, falsehood, forgery, insincere, intrue, lying, phoney, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, spoof, tin, wrong), derisione (derision, jeer, mockery, ridicule), deridere (deride, hoot, jeer, laugh, laugh at, scoff, sneer), burlarsi di (quiz), beffare (gibe, gird, jibe, make fun of), beffa (banter, cheat, derisiveness, gibe, hoax, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, lark, mockery, scoff, spoof). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 疑似 (false, pseudo, quasi, sham, suspected), "似 (false, pseudo, quasi, sham, suspected), 似非 (false, pretended, sham, would-be), 似非 (false, pretended, pseudo, quasi, sham, spurious, would-be). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎじ (character of questionable form, false, proceedings, pseudo, quasi, questionable word, sham, suspected), えせ (false, pretended, pseudo, pseudo-, quasi, sham, spurious, would-be). (various references) | |
Korean | 조롱 (mocking). (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo craid er, grinderagh (grumble, sarcastic, satirical, satirist, snarl, taunting), floutyraght (rebut, reproach, scorn, slander, stigmatize), floutey (rebut), floutagh (abusive, aspersive, distainful, flippant, lewdly jocular, reproachful, scornful, scurrilous, slanderous, taunting, vituperative), far- (fake, fresh, prefix pseudo-, pseudo-, super), craidey mysh (burlesque, deride, jeer, scoff), craid breagagh. (various references) | |
Maya | weedz (to mock). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockmay.(various references) | |
Polish | szydzić (jeer at, make fun of). (various references) | |
Portuguese | escarnecer (deride, engirdle, fleer, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jeer at, jibe, laugh, make fun of, scoff). (various references) | |
Romanian | maimuţãrire, maimuţãri (ape, imitate, mimic), lua în râs (ballyrag, gibe, scoff, stultify), înscenat, a-şi bate joc de (ballyrag, deride, have a fling at, hold in derision, lash, make fun of, scamp, sneer, sport, trifle), a-şi râde de (jape, jolly, kid, lash, make sport of, scoff, smile at), batjocurã (farce, gibe, insult, jeer, jesting, mockery, quiz, ridicule, scorn, taunt), derâdere (derision, jeer, ridicule), desfide (dare, defy), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize), imitare (counterfeit, imitation, mimicry, take off), sfida (affront, beard, brave, defy, face, outbrave, outdare, scoff), nu-i pãsa de (pooh pooh), parodia (burlesque, mimic, parody, travesty), prefãcut (affected, assumed, cattish, false, falsified, forged, guileful, histrionic, hollow-hearted, hypocritical, insidious, panting, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, seeming, sham, squeamish, treacherous), ridiculiza (banter, burlesque, guy, laugh, ridicule, roast, stultify), ridiculizare (banter, mockery), imita în bãtaie de joc. (various references) | |
Russian | фиктивный (fictional, fictitious, null), высмеивать фиктивный, высмеивать (deride, jape, make a game of, make fun, make fun of, make game of, razz, satirize), осмеяние (derision, jesting, mockery), насмехаться (deride, frump, gird, guy, jeer, jibe, sneer, taunt), мнимый (alleged, imaginary, ostensible, professed, putative, put-on, seeming, self-styled, supposed, would be), притворный (feigned, hypocritical, make believe, pretended, seeming, shoddy, simulated), посмешище (butt, laughing stock, laughingstock, mockery, scoff, stooge, stooges), подражание (echo, emulation, imitation, take off), поддельный (bogus, counterfeit, dud, dummy, factitious, forged, imitative, phoney, pinchbeck, pretended, queer, shoddy, spurious, supposititious, tin, unreal), пародировать (parody, travesty), пародия (burlesque, mockery, parody, pastiche, skit, travesty), пародийный (burlesque), издеваться. (various references) | |
Scottish | mag (deride). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sprdati se (make fun), ruglo (disgrace, eyesore, mockery), rugati se (bullyrag, deride, flout, gibe, gird, jape, jeer, jest, poke fun, ridicule, scoff), lažan (apocryphal, assumed, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, faked, false, feigned, lying, phoney, phony, pseudo, reprobate, sham, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), ismevati (diddle, laugh at, make fun of, quiz, ridicule), ismevanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | mofarse de (flout, jeer, laugh at, ridicule, scoff), mofar (jeer, scoff), imitado, burlarse de (banter, deride, flout, gibe, jibe, laugh at, make fun of, make play of, quiz, rib), burlesco (burlesque, farcical), desbaratar (debunk, scuttle, smash, thwart, wreck), escarnecer (jeer, ridicule, scoff at), fingido (assumed, bogus, dissembled, feigned, make believe, mimic, pretended, professed, sham, simulated, unction), burlarse (annoy, laugh, scoff, tease), frustrar (baffle, balk, baulk, blight, defeat, foil, frustrate, scotch, scupper, thwart, to foil), triscar (gambol, mingle, set, tease), imitar algo, remedar (ape, hit off, imitate, mime, mimic, send up), ridicularizar, simulado (make-believe, mimic, simulated), fisgar (jeer, pry, snoop). (various references) | |
Sranan | spotu (gag, jeer at, joke, make fun of). (various references) | |
Swedish | trotsa (affront, baffle, bid defiance to, brave, challenge, defy, elude, evade, flout, outface, scorn, stand up to), spelad, oäkta (apocryphal, bastard, counterfeit, false, fictitious, flash, illegitimate, imitation, pinchbeck, sham, shoddy, spurious), imitera (imitate, impersonate, mimic, parrot, simulate), imitation (dummy, imitation, impersonation, impression, mimicry, mockery, postiche, sham, takeoff), håna (deride, flout, gibe, jeer, jeer at, jibe, make fun of, scoff, sneer, taunt), fingerad (assumed, bogus, fictitious, sham), falsk (bad, bogus, devious, disingenuous, double faced, dud, dummy, fake, false, flash, forged, fulsome, hollow, imitation, insincere, janus-faced, meretricious, mistaken, off-key, phoney, pinchbeck, postiche, pseudo, sham, supposititious, two faced, unsound, untrue, wrong), förhåna (scoff at, scorn), efterapning (counterfeit, forgery, imitation, mimicry), driva med (cod, fool, guy, joke, Josh, make fun of, put a person on), begabba (scoff). (various references) | |
Thai | เลียนแบบ (ape, do, follow, imitate, mock up), เยาะเย้ย (gibe, gibe at, guy, jape, jibe, ridicule, sardonic, taunt with), ที่แกล้งทำ. (various references) | |
Turkish | maskaralık (antics, buffoonery, charade, drollery, fandangle, farce, foolery, Mummery, playfulness, ridiculousness, tomfoolery), taklit etmek (ape, copy, copycat, counterfeit, do an impression of smb., echo, fake, follow suit, hit off, imitate, impersonate, mime, mimic, simulate, take a leaf out of one's book, take an example by), taklit (affectation, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, echo, fake, false, gold brick, hit off, imitated, imitation, imitative, impression, mimesis, mimic, mimicry, mockery, pinchbeck, repetition, reproduction, sham, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, snide, take off), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), kalp (base, bogus, counterfeit, false, forged, heart, phoney, phony, queer, spurious), alay konusu (joke, standing jest), alay etmek (deride, flout, gibe, gird at, gird at smb., give smb. a roasting, groove, guy, hold in derision, ironize, jape, jeer, jeer at, jibe, jolly, Josh, laugh at, make a game of, make a jest of, make fun of, make merry over, poke fun, poke fun at smb., pull smb.'s leg, razz, ridicule, roast, rot, scoff, take the mickey out of smb., taunt), alay (banter, cortege, derision, fleet, fun, gag, gibe, irony, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, leg pull, mockery, parade, persiflage, procession, quiz, regiment, regimental, ridicule, rub, scoff, sneer, taunt, teasing, troops in line, wipe). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, pretended, professed, put on, seeming, shoddy, simulate, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), глузування (banter, dig, flout, gibe, jeer, jest, outfling, scoff, send up, sneer, twit, wipe, witticism), висміювати (befool, caricature, deride, droll, jape, make fun of, quip, satirize), осміяння (barracking, derision, mockery, ridicule), підроблений (adulterate, adulterated, bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, falsified, imitative, sham, simulated, snide, spurious, staged, supposititious), посміховище (derision, joke, laughingstock, mockery, pillory, ridicule, scoff, target), передражнювати (imitate, mimic, monkey). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nhạo báng (derision, gird, girt, ridicule), sự chế giễu (gird, girt, raillery), giả (counterfeit, dummy, make-believe, pinchbeck, sham, spurious), bắt chước (imitative, mimic, sequacious). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwawdio (jeer, ridicule, scoff), gwatwar (mimic, mockery), cymw+edd (jest), coegi (jeer at). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | derideat, deridebant, deridebis, deridebit, derident, derideo, deridet, deridetur, deriserunt, derisio, derisorum, derisu, derisum, derisus, Hippoglossus reinhardtius, illud, illudere, inludant, inludas, inludebant, inludebantque, inludebat, inludebatur, inludendam, inludendum, inludent, inludentes, inludere, inluderet, inludes, inludet, inludetur, inluserunt, inlusisti, inlusus, inrideant, inrideas, inrideat, inridebant, inridebit, inridebunt, inridens, inridentes, inridentibus, inrideo, inridere, inridet, inriseris, inriserunt, inrisum, insultabant, insultaret, insultavit, insultent, insultet, lod, lud, ludam, ludant, luddeo, luddeum, lude, ludebant, ludebat, ludens, ludent, ludentem, ludentes, ludentibus, ludentium, luderet, lusistis, lusit, Philadelphus coronarius, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, subsannabant, subsannabis, subsannabit, subsannabo, subsannant, subsannantibus, subsannat, subsannatae, subsannator, subsannaverunt, subsannavit. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | bysmerian, gebysmerian. (various references) |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | mocken. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | mocquer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oikiai paranomwn ofeilhsousin kaqarismon oikiai de dikaiwn dektai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Stultis inludet peccatum inter iustos morabitur gratia |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The fool scorneth synne; among riytwis men grace shal wone. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang mga buang magatiaw-tiaw lamang sa halad-tungod-sa-sala; Apan sa taliwala sa mga matarung adunay maayong kabubut-on. |
| Croatian | Luðacima je grijeh šala, a milost je Božja s poštenima. |
| Danish | Med Dårer driver Skyldofret Spot, men Velvilje råder iblandt retsindige. |
| Dutch | Elke dwaas zal de schuld verbloemen; maar onder de oprechten is goedwilligheid. |
| Finnish | Hulluja pilkkaa vikauhri, mutta oikeamielisten kesken on mielisuosio. |
| French | Les insensés se font un jeu du péché, Mais parmi les hommes droits se trouve la bienveillance. |
| German | Die Narren treiben das Gespött mit der Sünde; aber die Frommen haben Lust an den Frommen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang bodoh tidak peduli apakah dosanya diampuni atau tidak; orang baik ingin diampuni dosanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa orang bodoh kelak mencahari dalih-dalih akan salahnya, tetapi antara orang benar adalah pengasihan. |
| Italian | Fra gli stolti risiede la colpa, fra gli uomini retti la benevolenza. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko ta nga wairangi he kata ki te he: na kei te hunga tika te whakaaro pai. |
| Norwegian | Dårer spottes av sitt eget skyldoffer, men blandt de opriktige råder Guds velbehag. |
| Portuguese | A culpa zomba dos insensatos; mas os retos têm o favor de Deus. |
| Rumanian | Cei nesocotiyi glumesc cu pqcatul, dar kntre cei fqrq prihanq este bunqvoinyq. - |
| Russian | зМХ ЩЕ УНЕАФУС ОБ" ЗТЕИПН, Б ПУТЕ"Й ТБЧЕ"ОЩИ--'МБЗПЧПМЕОЙЕ. |
| Spanish | Los insensatos se mofan de la culpabilidad, pero entre los rectos hay buena voluntad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mock": mockable, mocked, mocker, mockeries, mockers, mockery, mocking, mockingbird, mockingbirds, mockingly, mocks, mockup, mockups. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mock": bemock, drammock, hammock, hommock, hummock, mammock, smock. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mock": bemocked, bemocking, bemocks, drammocks, hammocks, hommocks, hummocked, hummocking, hummocks, hummocky, mammocked, mammocking, mammocks, smocked, smocking, smockings, smocks. (additional references) | |
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"Mock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amocc, amock, bmoc, Gock, kock, macc, mco, meck, Mecky, Menck, Micko, micky, moac, moc, Moca, moce, moch, moci, mocky, mocs, mocz, moik, mok, Mokoko, molk, mook, moowk, Mopc, mork, Moskva, mpcu, mucg, mucka, Mukoko, omck, omk, Omokoko. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mock" (pronounced mÄ"k) |
| 3 | m Ä" k | Mach, smock. |
| 2 | -Ä" k | antiknock, antilock, Bach, Bangkok, bloc, block, Bock, Brock, caulk, chalk, chock, clock, Croc, crock, Doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, hock, interlock, Jock, knock, Loch, lock, Nock, overstock, pock, restock, Roc, rock, schlock, shock, sock, stock, undock, unlock, walk, wok. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-m-o" | |
-1 letter: moc. | |
-2 letters: mo, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-m-o" | |
+1 letter: mocks, smock. | |
+2 letters: bemock, comake, mocked, mocker, mockup, smocks. | |
+3 letters: armlock, bemocks, comaker, comakes, comatik, hammock, hemlock, hommock, hummock, lockram, mammock, mattock, miscook, mockers, mockery, mocking, mockups, mudrock, mullock, oomiack, rimrock, smocked, sockman, sockmen, tomback. | |
+4 letters: armlocks, backmost, backroom, bemocked, clerkdom, comakers, comaking, comatiks, comblike, comeback, cormlike, dominick, drammock, gamecock, hammocks, hemlocks, homesick, hommocks, hummocks, hummocky, lockrams, mammocks, mattocks, miscooks, mockable, monicker, moorcock, mossback, muckworm, mudrocks, mullocks, mullocky, oomiacks, pockmark, rimrocks, shamrock, sickroom, smocking, stockman, stockmen, tombacks. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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