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scoffer

scoffer noun: one who scoffs or mocks.

Noun

scoffer (plural scoffers)

  1. One who scoffs or mocks.
    • Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...
  2. (UK, slang) One who eats a large amount.

scoffer meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

scoffer in Tamil

நிந்தகன், நளினக்காரன், கேலிக்காரன், கோட்டாலைக்காரன்

scoffer in Malayalam

പുച്ഛിക്കുന്നയാൾ, നിന്ദിക്കുന്നവൻ, അധിക്ഷേപിക്കുന്നവൻ

Forms of scoffer

pluralscoffers

Origin of scoffer

From scoff + -er.

Questions about scoffer

What does scoffer mean?
Scoffer means one who scoffs or mocks.
What is scoffer in Tamil?
Scoffer in Tamil is நிந்தகன், நளினக்காரன், கேலிக்காரன். See Scoffer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scoffer?
Scoffer is a noun.
What is the plural of scoffer?
The plural of scoffer is scoffers.

Words near scoffer in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scoffer (page history and authors); scoffer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scoffer (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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