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  MOCKING-BIRD
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj mock constituting a copy or imitation of something "boys in mock battle"
  • v mock treat with contempt "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles"
  • v mock imitate with mockery and derision "The children mocked their handicapped classmate"
  • n mock the act of mocking or ridiculing "they made a mock of him"
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• Interesting fact: Potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum. They were a mocking response to a patron who complained that his French fries were too thick.
• • Mock 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."
  • a Mock Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. "That superior greatness and mock majesty."
  • Mock Imitation; mimicry.
  • Mock 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."
  • Mock 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."
  • v. i Mock 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."
  • Mock To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. "Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.""Let not ambition mock their useful toil."
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• • mock To treat derisively or contemptuously; make sport of by mimicry, ridicule, or sarcasm; deride.
  • mock To simulate, imitate, or mimic; produce a semblance of.
  • mock To deceive by simulation or pretense: disappoint with false expectation; fool.
  • mock To set at naught; defy.
  • mock Synonyms Ridicule, etc. (see taunt), jeer at, gibe at, take off, make game of.
  • mock Mimic, Ape, etc. See imitate.
  • mock To delude.
  • mock To use ridicule or derision; gibe or jeer; flout: often with at.
  • n mock Derisive or contemptuous action or speech; also, a bringing into contempt or ridicule.
  • n mock That which one derides or mocks.
  • n mock Mimicry; imitation.
  • n mock A trifle.
  • n mock Mock turtle.
  • mock Feigned; counterfeit; spurious: as, mock heroism; mock modesty; a mock battle.
  • mock Having close resemblance, as if imitative.
  • n mock A root or stump.
  • n mock A tuft of sedge.
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• • v.t Mock mok to laugh at: to make sport of: to mimic in ridicule: to disappoint the hopes of: to deceive: to set at nought, defy
  • n Mock ridicule, a sneer: a bringing into ridicule
  • adj Mock imitating reality, but not real: false
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• Ada Louise Huxtable

  

  “Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.”
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  

  “I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.”
• Walt Whitman

  

  “There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”
• William Shakespeare

  

  “Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.”
• Albert Camus

  

  “Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.”
• John Greenleaf Whittier

  

  “Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.”

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