• (RP) IPA: /skɒf/
• (America) IPA: /skɔːf/
• (cot-caught, northern cities vowel shift) IPA: /skɑːf/

scoff (plural scoffs)

1. Derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:

     With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.

   • 1852, The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)

     There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […]

2. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.

   • the scoff of withered age and beardless youth

• (derision, ridicule) derision, ridicule
• See also Thesaurus:ridicule

• French: dérision, ridicule, moquerie
• German: Spott
• Italian: scherno, derisione, verso, scorno, ridicolo
• Russian: насме́шка

• Spanish: hazmerreír

scoff (scoffs, present participle scoffing; past and past participle scoffed)

1. (intransitive) To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.

   • Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.

2. (transitive) To mock; to treat with scorn.

• (to jeer, laugh at) sneer
• (to mock, scorn) contemn, deride

• French: se gausser, se moquer, tourner en ridicule
• German: spotten, spötteln
• Italian: deridere, schernire, fare il verso, motteggiare
• Russian: насмехаться
• Spanish: burlarse

scoff

1. (South Africa and British Army slang) Food.
2. (slang) The act of eating.
   • 2016, Fearne Cotton, Cook Happy, Cook Healthy

     Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […]

• Italian: mangiare, cibaria

scoff (scoffs, present participle scoffing; past and past participle scoffed)

1. (British, slang) To eat food quickly.
2. (South Africa and British Army slang) To eat.

• (eat quickly) gobble, scarf (US)

• French: engloutir
• German: verschlingen
• Italian: trangugiare
• Russian: уплетать

• Italian: mangiare, cibarsi, nutrirsi