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scoff

verb
🔊/skɒf/
🔊/skɑːf/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they scoff
🔊/skɒf/
🔊/skɑːf/
he / she / it scoffs
🔊/skɒfs/
🔊/skɑːfs/
past simple scoffed
🔊/skɒft/
🔊/skɑːft/
past participle scoffed
🔊/skɒft/
🔊/skɑːft/
-ing form scoffing
🔊/ˈskɒfɪŋ/
🔊/ˈskɑːfɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] to talk about somebody/something in a way that makes it clear that you think they are stupid or silly 嘲笑；讥讽synonym mock
    • Don't scoff—she's absolutely right.别嘲笑她，她绝对正确。🔊🔊
    • scoff at somebody/something He scoffed at our amateurish attempts.他对我们不在行的尝试嗤之以鼻。🔊🔊
    • + speech ‘Don't be ridiculous,’ she scoffed.“别笑了，”她嘲笑道。
  2. (British English)
    (North American English scarf)
    [transitive] scoff something (informal) to eat a lot of something quickly贪婪地吃；狼吞虎咽
    • Who scoffed all the grapes?谁那么贪嘴，把葡萄全吃光了？🔊🔊
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    3. Word Originsense 1 Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin.sense 2 late 18th cent. (as a verb): originally a variant of Scots and dialect scaff. The noun is from Afrikaans schoff, representing Dutch schoft ‘quarter of a day’, (by extension) ‘meal’.