SCOFFER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scoffer mean? 

• SCOFFER (noun)
  The noun SCOFFER has 2 senses:

1. someone who eats food rapidly and greedily

2. someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision

  Familiarity information: SCOFFER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCOFFER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who eats food rapidly and greedily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gorger; scoffer

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

eater; feeder (someone who consumes food for nourishment)

Sense 2

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 ("scoffer" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Derivation:

scoff (treat with contemptuous disregard)

scoff (laugh at with contempt and derision)

 Context examples 

Involuntarily he glanced up and around to see if there were any trace of those opportune levin-flashes and thunderbolts which, in the Acta Sanctorum, were wont so often to cut short the loose talk of the scoffer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)