1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
Fools make a mock at sin.
Prov. xiv. 9. 2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] Crashaw.
Mock
(Mock), a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
That superior greatness and mock majesty.
Spectator. Mock bishop's weed (Bot.),
a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places.
— Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. — Mock lead. See Blende —
Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. — Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American
and Asiatic shrubs with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant
flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. — Mock sun. See Parhelion. — Mock turtle soup,
a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup. —
Mock velvet, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.
Mockable
(Mock"a*ble) a. Such as can be mocked. Shak.
Mockado
(Mock"a*do) n. A stuff made in imitation of velvet; — probably the same as mock velvet. [Obs.]
Our rich mockado doublet.
Ford. Mockadour
(Mock"a*dour) n. See Mokadour. [Obs.]
Mockage
(Mock"age) n. Mockery. [Obs.] Fuller.
Mockbird
(Mock"bird`) n. (Zoöl.) The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis).
Mocker
(Mock"er) n.
1. One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.
2. A deceiver; an impostor.
3. (Zoöl.) A mocking bird.
Mocker nut (Bot.),
a kind of hickory (Carya tomentosa) and its fruit, which is far inferior to the true
shagbark hickory nut.
Mockery
(Mock"er*y) n.; pl. Mockeries [F. moquerie.]
1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a
false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
It is, as the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Shak.
Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any
solemn application of the mind to God.
Law.
And bear about the mockery of woe.
Pope. 2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.
The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries.
Spenser.