mock
/mɑk/ verb C2- To mimic, to simulate.
- To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
- To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of. · The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!
- To create a mockup or prototype of.
He/she/it mocks · Past mocked · Past participle mocked · -ing form mocking
Verb forms
- Base form
- mock
- He/she/it
- mocks
- Past
- mocked
- Past participle
- mocked
- -ing form
- mocking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A goat-herd seeing him stop, mocked him, saying “The little one is the best runner of the two.” The Hound replied, “You do not see the difference between us: I was only running for a dinner, but he for his life.”
A PEACOCK spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, “I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings.” “True,” replied the Crane; “but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill.”
One evening they were standing on the bridge over a rushing turbulent stream and Cordelia, thinking they were alone, pushed Geraldine over the brink with a wild, mocking, ‘Ha, ha, ha.
The Mock Turtle’s Story
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