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Noun: scoffing  skóf-ing
  1. Showing your contempt by derision
    - jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff
Verb: scoff  skóf
  1. Shout or laugh at with contempt and derision
    "The crowd scoffed at the speaker";
    - jeer, flout, barrack [Brit], gibe
     
  2. Treat with contemptuous disregard
    - flout
     
  3. [informal] Eat very quickly and greedily
    - scarf [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: scoffings

Type of: bait, brush aside, brush off [informal], cod [Brit, informal], derision, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside, rag, rally, razz [N. Amer, informal], ride [N. Amer, informal], taunt, tease, twit [informal], wind up [Brit, informal]

Encyclopedia: Scoffing

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