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Mock   /mɑk/   Listen
adjective
Mock  adj.  Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. "That superior greatness and mock majesty."
Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places.
Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem.
Mock lead. See Blende (a).
Mock nightingale (Zool.), the European blackcap.
Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. Philadelphus coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless.
Mock sun. See Parhelion.
Mock turtle soup, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup.
Mock velvet, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.


verb
Mock  v. t.  (past & past part. mocked; pres. part. mocking)  
1.
To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. "To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death." "Mocking marriage with a dame of France."
2.
To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. "Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud." "Let not ambition mock their useful toil."
3.
To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation. "Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies." "He will not... Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence."
Synonyms: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride.


Mock  v. i.  To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner. "When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?" "She had mocked at his proposal."


noun
Mock  n.  
1.
An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer. "Fools make a mock at sin."
2.
Imitation; mimicry. (R.)





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"Mock" Quotes from Famous Books



... was ejected from the throne which it had occupied for two hundred and fifty years. Antiochus soon after lost his life through the artifice of the emir Sampsiceramus, as whose client he played the ruler in Antioch; thenceforth there is no further mention of these mock-kings and ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... Bart, in mock heroic tones, "I thank you for your sympathy, but because some troubles fall upon us unawares, it does not follow that we should set ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright
... was there, one of the boys came up to me and said, with a mock ceremony and politeness which unfortunately took me in, "If I am not mistaken, sir, that esteemed lady, your ...
— A Great Emergency and Other Tales - A Great Emergency; A Very Ill-Tempered Family; Our Field; Madam Liberality • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
... to mock his enthusiasm and his hope. The rumor of Hophrah's return to Egypt was verified—and Nebuchadrezzar was ...
— Stories of the Prophets - (Before the Exile) • Isaac Landman
... near, while the way to them and safety lay only a few fathoms distant—torturing him by its very nearness. For every now and then driving hard to the end of her tether she would rush forward on a sea and appear to be coming within his reach, only to mock him by drifting away once more, like some relentless lady-love playing with his very heartstrings. The rope under the sunken mainsail prevented her from quite reaching him, and each time that she seemed coming to his arms, she again ...
— Labrador Days - Tales of the Sea Toilers • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell


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