scoff (skof)

[Cf. MD. schoffieren, scoff, schob ben, schoppen, scoff, = Icel. skopa, scoff: see scoff, n.] I. in trans. To speak jeeringly or derisively; manifest mockery, derision, or ridicule; utter contemptuous or taunting language; mock; deride: generally with at before the object. IMG:content-0315.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0316.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0317.jpg:[graphic] Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp. Shak., Rich. II., iii. 2. 163. To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest. Glanville, Sermons, p. 213. (Latham.) 2. To eat hastily; devour. (Naut. slang.] scoffer (skôf'er), n. [ There shall come in the last days scoffers , walking after their own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming?" 2 Pet. iii. 3. Let him that thinks fit scoff on, and be a Scoffer still. I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 23.