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scoffers

scoffers is the plural of scoffer.

Meaning of scoffer

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.

Questions about scoffers

What is scoffers the plural of?
Scoffers is the plural of scoffer.

Words near scoffers in the dictionary

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

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