scoffing

Verb (1)

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

1. (intransitive) To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.
   • Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   laugh at, sneer, gird, jeer, jibe, scorn

2. (transitive) To mock; to treat with scorn.

   Synonyms:

   contemn, deride, badger, bam, barrack, brock, bullyrag, chiack, fleer, fligger

Verb (2)

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

1. (Australia, Newfoundland, UK, slang) To eat food quickly.
   • ‘You got to own that this old Orlando Boop’s pretty hot stuff, having it out with the Baron for scoffing all the best food at his table.’1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 84

   Synonyms:

   gobble, scarf

2. (British-Army, Newfoundland, South Africa, slang) To eat.

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