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scofferies

scofferies is the plural of scoffery.

Meaning of scoffery

Noun

scoffery (usually uncountable, plural scofferies)

  1. (usually) The act of scoffing; mockery.
    • King Henrie the fift in his beginning thought it a meere scofferie to pursue anie fallow deere with hounds or greihounds1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC

Questions about scofferies

What is scofferies the plural of?
Scofferies is the plural of scoffery.

Words near scofferies in the dictionary

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

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