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scoffed up

scoffed up is the simple past and past participle of scoff up.

Meaning of scoff up

Verb

scoff up (third-person singular simple present scoffs up, present participle scoffing up, simple past and past participle scoffed up)

  1. (UK, informal) Synonym of scarf down.
    • And we left most of the oversweet and overprocessed cake on the plate, scoffing up the fresh berries instead.2009 July 17, Emily DeNitto, “Great Expectations and the Denouement”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2018
    Synonyms:
    scarf down

Questions about scoffed up

What is scoffed up the simple past and past participle of?
Scoffed up is the simple past and past participle of scoff up.

Words near scoffed up in the dictionary

  1. scoff-law
  2. scoff-laws
  3. scoffable
  4. scoffed
  5. scoffed down
  6. scoffed up
  7. scoffer
  8. scofferies
  9. Scoffern
  10. Scofferns
  11. scoffers

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