† ˈscoffery Obs. rare.
[f. scoff v.1 + -ery, after mockery.]
a. A mockery, ridiculous proceeding. b. Mockery, jeering, derision.
| 1577 Harrison England iii. vii. 108 b, King Henrye..thought it a mere scoffery to pursue any fallow Deare with hounds or greyhounds. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. (Arb.) 76 Skelton a sharpe Satirist, but with more rayling and scoffery then became a Poet Lawreat. 1836 Fraser's Mag. XIV. 507 With..a scowling scoffery of all the principles which those who gathered together the National Assembly had contemplated. |