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mocque

mocque is the obsolete form of mock.

Meaning of mock

Verb

mock (third-person singular simple present mocks, present participle mocking, simple past and past participle mocked)

  1. To mimic, to simulate.
    • To see the life as lively mocked as ever / Still sleep mocked death.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (rare) To create an artistic representation of.
    • [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: […]1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier...
  3. To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
    • 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 18:27, column 1
  4. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
    • The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!
  5. (transitive) To create a mockup or prototype of.
    • They can also mock other integration points such as backend, database, or any other external resource.2016, Murat Yener, Onur Dundar, Expert Android Studio, page 233

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Forms of mocque

third-person singular presentmocques
present participlemocquing
past participlemocqued
pastmocqued

Questions about mocque

What is mocque the obsolete form of?
Mocque is the obsolete form of mock.

Words near mocque in the dictionary

  1. Mocoa
  2. mocock
  3. mococks
  4. mocos
  5. Mocoví
  6. mocque
  7. Mocra
  8. mocs
  9. moctamide
  10. Moctezuma
  11. Moctezuma's revenge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mocque (page history and authors); mock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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