MOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mock mean? 

• MOCK (noun)
  The noun MOCK has 1 sense:

1. the act of mocking or ridiculing

  Familiarity information: MOCK used as a noun is very rare.

• MOCK (adjective)
  The adjective MOCK has 1 sense:

1. constituting a copy or imitation of something

  Familiarity information: MOCK used as an adjective is very rare.

• MOCK (verb)
  The verb MOCK has 2 senses:

1. treat with contempt

2. imitate with mockery and derision

  Familiarity information: MOCK used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of mocking or ridiculing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

they made a mock of him

Hypernyms ("mock" is a kind of...):

derision; ridicule (the act of deriding or treating with contempt)

Derivation:

mock (imitate with mockery and derision)

• MOCK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Constituting a copy or imitation of something

Context example:

boys in mock battle

Similar:

counterfeit; imitative (not genuine; imitating something superior)

• MOCK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mock    ... he / she / it mocks   
Past simple: mocked   
Past participle: mocked   
-ing form: mocking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat with contempt

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bemock; mock

Context example:

The new constitution mocks all democratic principles

Hypernyms (to "mock" is one way to...):

do by; handle; treat (interact in a certain way)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mock"):

bait; cod; rag; rally; razz; ride; tantalise; tantalize; taunt; tease; twit (harass with persistent criticism or carping)

blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast (subject to laughter or ridicule)

deride (treat or speak of with contempt)

Sentence frames:

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Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

mocker (someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision)

mockery (showing your contempt by derision)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Imitate with mockery and derision

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The children mocked their handicapped classmate

Hypernyms (to "mock" is one way to...):

copy; imitate; simulate (reproduce someone's behavior or looks)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mock"):

ape; caricature (represent in or produce a caricature of)

impersonate (represent another person with comic intentions)

burlesque; parody; spoof (make a parody of)

Sentence frames:

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Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

mock (the act of mocking or ridiculing)

mocker (someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision)

 Context examples 

His hand went out to mine, and as I shook it heartily I could have sworn I saw the mocking devil shine up for a moment in his eyes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But, by St. James! we shall not let these Moors make mock at us from over the sea.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There was a mocking smile on the bloated face which seemed to drive me mad.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was silent: I thought he mocked me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Dr. Grant is ill,” said she, with mock solemnity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And always the ptarmigan rose, whirring, before him, till their ker—ker—ker became a mock to him, and he cursed them and cried aloud at them with their own cry.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But Martin, looking into his eyes, saw no fear there,—naught but a curious and mocking devil.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

‘Steady old Jim!’ said she, and with a kind o’ mocking laugh, she ran out of the room.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the princes, peers, and great men mocked at him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)