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MOCKER (mocker)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mocker mean?
• MOCKER (noun)
The noun MOCKER has 2 senses:
1. someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
2. long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
Familiarity information: MOCKER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
flouter; jeerer; mocker; scoffer
Hypernyms ("mocker" is a kind of...):
disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)
Derivation:
mock (treat with contempt)
mock (imitate with mockery and derision)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Mimus polyglotktos; mocker; mockingbird
Hypernyms ("mocker" is a kind of...):
oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)
Holonyms ("mocker" is a member of...):
genus Mimus; Mimus (type genus of the family Mimidae: mockingbirds)
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