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   scoff

   /skɒf/

   verb

   • 1. speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way: "Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films"

   noun

   • 1. an expression of scornful derision: "scoffs of disbelief"
   • ▪ an object of ridicule: "his army was the scoff of all Europe"

   Word Origin Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. scoffer noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

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   • C

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   • O

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   • F

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