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verb skɒf [no object]Speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way. 嘲弄，嘲笑，讥笑 Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films 帕特里克承认嘲笑了电影里感伤的故作多情的场面。 with direct speech ‘You, a scientist?’ he scoffed Example sentencesExamples - And while social programs are nothing to scoff at, the more mundane stuff, like where to go when you're 17 on a Friday night, is what most underagers are most concerned with.
- When I asked a friend if he thought he was able to still be friends with the love of his life because of that very fact, he scoffed at me.
- Trent scoffed in complete disgust, though he wasn't really thinking about the price of the wine.
- Throw in a road that twists all over the hill like a drunken sailor on leave, and you'll never scoff at a moped again.
- He scoffed at college, saying that he'd made a lot of money and he hadn't even bothered to finish college.
- The man scoffed in disgust, and threw the paper away, walking on brusquely.
- Scott seems to scoff at talent identification.
- I scoffed at the idea of such a thing when it first struck me, just as many of you are scoffing now.
- I believe hardcore fisherman may scoff at this time of day, thinking that you have to be up at the crack of dawn to make the best of it.
- She scoffed loudly and threw her hands in the air, clearly annoyed.
- We scoff at the notion that anybody would be taken in by such scams.
- I scoffed at him, nudging him with my foot, and he lashed out at me.
- The older generation, such as Aunt Olivia, tended to scoff at such suggestions.
- Matt silently scoffed under his breath, not moving from the bed.
- I think most people would scoff at the idea, and rightly so.
- Out of the corner of my eye I noted Patterson scoffing in disbelief.
- Ten years ago, I would have scoffed at anybody who dared to speak such blasphemy.
- The critics scoff, but we find this to be a clue.
- At the time, North scoffed at the suggestion such a link existed.
- "A meek little mouse, she is, " the dark-haired man scoffed.
Synonyms mock, deride, ridicule, sneer at, be scornful about, treat contemptuously, jeer at, jibe at, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, scorn, laugh to scorn, dismiss, pooh-pooh, make light of, belittle taunt, tease, make a fool of, rag informal thumb one's nose at, take the mickey out of Australian/New Zealand informal poke mullock at British vulgar slang take the piss out of dated make sport of rare fleer at, bite one's thumb at, scout at
noun skɒf 1An expression of scornful derision. 嘲笑的话 Example sentencesExamples - William exhaled resignedly and let out a mild scoff.
- Unfortunately, these opinion-oriented authors have gotten nothing but scoffs from friends of mine.
- Epitomizing Sokurov's ambivalence, the narrator scoffs at the film's climactic (or should I say inevitable?) ballroom dance yet expresses regret at having to leave.
- Shane's upper lip curled up and she emitted a scoff of disgust.
- She looked up and glared at me hard for a moment before she shook her head and gave a soft amused noise that was halfway towards being a disbelieving scoff.
- Luckily I recovered with a scoff, the evil eye, and a quick getaway.
- Her converser let out a quick breath, almost a scoff.
- She let out a loud scoff and flipped her ponytail over her shoulder, beginning to carelessly check her hair for split ends.
- It was more like a harsh bark of a scoff, rather than a laugh.
- Shaking his head with a scoff, he answered, ‘Fine.’
- I was about to say something when Austin interrupted by letting out a loud scoff.
- In the background, behind the murmuring and brash conversations that were held in the room, the faint lyrics of a rock song he had heard before were drowned out by the scoffs, taunts and laughing of the foul company the tavern housed.
- Such a response only won her a scoff from the woman.
- And with a scoff to the gentleman, wherever he was, Mitch turned around and headed for the garage to get back to that overheating engine.
- Rachel forced a scoff as she turned for the pink canopy bed.
- Jesse let out a sound - half a scoff, half a snort - and gave me a look.
- With a scoff, she answered, ‘Always the suspicious one.’
- All I could do was let out a scoff with a smile.
- I don't even think before I manage a scoff, and I scrunch up my nose.
- I usually would give such a thing a scoff and forget about it.
- 1.1archaic An object of ridicule.
〈古〉笑料，笑柄 his army was the scoff of all Europe 他的军队成了整个欧洲的笑柄。
OriginMiddle English (first used as a noun in the sense 'mockery, scorn'): perhaps of Scandinavian origin. Rhymesboff, cough, doff, far-off, off, quaff, roll-on roll-off, telling-off, toff, trough verb skɒf [with object]informal Eat (something) quickly and greedily. 狼吞虎咽地吃 he can scoff a cannelloni faster than you can drink a pint 他吃一个意式烤碎肉卷能比你喝一品脱饮料还快。 Example sentencesExamples - I was to nervous to eat much, but I had watched them scoff their food down quickly as we made our way to the back door of the club.
- Hedge your bets by planting different species, as it is unlikely that the birds will scoff the lot.
- Igor was busy most of the time scoffing a hamburger, which he propped up on the music stand before and after solos.
- However, she says the single life does have its advantages including being able to scoff junk food in front of the TV and have the privacy of your own bathroom.
- Crab risotto and rib-eye steaks are scoffed by families on holiday and hungry yachties.
- Kerri's appetite was well and truly back as she scoffed them and talked to Danielle about girly things.
- I'm only responsible for scoffing the plain ones.
- It would be unwise to keep Koi if you live on the flight path of migrating osprey - they'll scoff the lot, as will herons.
- But I still detected some misgivings - and not only among the press corps scoffing moussaka between briefings.
- You changed clothes when you got to the airlock on the Moon, but Adam planned to scoff his candies on the shuttle.
- For the record I scoffed a tiny tub of blackcurrant so purple it sent my teeth mauve, and another of gooseberry and elderflower.
- I'm ashamed to say it now, but in a moment of weakness I scoffed them as the plate swept past me on the way to your table.
- As I don't, I scoffed the lot with a good deal of plain rice for mopping up.
- But what makes this weekend off so much more special than the rest is the fact that we have an excuse to scoff countless numbers of chocolate Easter eggs.
- Luckily, Carrie is well practised at disguising her vegetarianism and has been known to scoff hamburgers whole just to throw people off her scent.
- So, instead of eating a roll of Munchies I would scoff a handful of blueberries.
- She scoffed her food down quickly.
- He scoffed the rest of his appetizer as Wendy made her way to the kitchen.
- If the locals aren't scoffing ripe fruit and fresh pasta from the table they are lying flat out on it, getting a massage.
- As if to prove the point, she whipped out a large pile of ham and scoffed the lot.
Synonyms eat, devour, consume, guzzle, gobble, wolf down, polish off, finish off, gulp down, bolt informal put away, nosh, get outside of, pack away, demolish, shovel down, stuff (down), stuff one's face with, stuff oneself with, pig oneself on, pig out on, sink, get one's laughing gear round British informal gollop, shift Northern Irish informal gorb North American informal scarf (down/up), snarf (down/up), inhale rare ingurgitate
noun skɒf mass nouninformal Food. 食物 ice cream was seen as suitable scoff to keep the under-tens quiet Example sentencesExamples - You can't have the Michelangelo of scoff waving to all corners for ketchup.
- A celebrity in a search of a fast buck can do a lot worse than lend their name to a range of scoff.
Synonyms food, fare, eatables, refreshments informal grub, nosh, chow, eats, feed British informal tuck North American informal chuck archaic victuals, vittles, meat
OriginLate 18th century (as a verb): originally a variant of Scots and dialect scaff. The noun is from Afrikaans schoff, representing Dutch schoft 'quarter of a day', (by extension) 'meal'. verb [no object]Speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way. 嘲弄，嘲笑，讥笑 with direct speech “You, a scientist?” he scoffed department officials scoffed at the allegations Example sentencesExamples - I scoffed at him, nudging him with my foot, and he lashed out at me.
- Out of the corner of my eye I noted Patterson scoffing in disbelief.
- Throw in a road that twists all over the hill like a drunken sailor on leave, and you'll never scoff at a moped again.
- The man scoffed in disgust, and threw the paper away, walking on brusquely.
- And while social programs are nothing to scoff at, the more mundane stuff, like where to go when you're 17 on a Friday night, is what most underagers are most concerned with.
- The critics scoff, but we find this to be a clue.
- When I asked a friend if he thought he was able to still be friends with the love of his life because of that very fact, he scoffed at me.
- I scoffed at the idea of such a thing when it first struck me, just as many of you are scoffing now.
- She scoffed loudly and threw her hands in the air, clearly annoyed.
- The older generation, such as Aunt Olivia, tended to scoff at such suggestions.
- Scott seems to scoff at talent identification.
- Ten years ago, I would have scoffed at anybody who dared to speak such blasphemy.
- Matt silently scoffed under his breath, not moving from the bed.
- Trent scoffed in complete disgust, though he wasn't really thinking about the price of the wine.
- I believe hardcore fisherman may scoff at this time of day, thinking that you have to be up at the crack of dawn to make the best of it.
- We scoff at the notion that anybody would be taken in by such scams.
- He scoffed at college, saying that he'd made a lot of money and he hadn't even bothered to finish college.
- At the time, North scoffed at the suggestion such a link existed.
- "A meek little mouse, she is, " the dark-haired man scoffed.
- I think most people would scoff at the idea, and rightly so.
Synonyms mock, deride, ridicule, sneer at, be scornful about, treat contemptuously, jeer at, jibe at, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, scorn, laugh to scorn, dismiss, pooh-pooh, make light of, belittle
noun 1An expression of scornful derision. 嘲笑的话 Example sentencesExamples - Such a response only won her a scoff from the woman.
- William exhaled resignedly and let out a mild scoff.
- Shane's upper lip curled up and she emitted a scoff of disgust.
- All I could do was let out a scoff with a smile.
- Shaking his head with a scoff, he answered, ‘Fine.’
- I usually would give such a thing a scoff and forget about it.
- In the background, behind the murmuring and brash conversations that were held in the room, the faint lyrics of a rock song he had heard before were drowned out by the scoffs, taunts and laughing of the foul company the tavern housed.
- Rachel forced a scoff as she turned for the pink canopy bed.
- With a scoff, she answered, ‘Always the suspicious one.’
- Unfortunately, these opinion-oriented authors have gotten nothing but scoffs from friends of mine.
- Jesse let out a sound - half a scoff, half a snort - and gave me a look.
- It was more like a harsh bark of a scoff, rather than a laugh.
- I was about to say something when Austin interrupted by letting out a loud scoff.
- She let out a loud scoff and flipped her ponytail over her shoulder, beginning to carelessly check her hair for split ends.
- Her converser let out a quick breath, almost a scoff.
- Epitomizing Sokurov's ambivalence, the narrator scoffs at the film's climactic (or should I say inevitable?) ballroom dance yet expresses regret at having to leave.
- I don't even think before I manage a scoff, and I scrunch up my nose.
- And with a scoff to the gentleman, wherever he was, Mitch turned around and headed for the garage to get back to that overheating engine.
- Luckily I recovered with a scoff, the evil eye, and a quick getaway.
- She looked up and glared at me hard for a moment before she shook her head and gave a soft amused noise that was halfway towards being a disbelieving scoff.
- 1.1archaic An object of ridicule.
〈古〉笑料，笑柄 his army was the scoff of all Europe 他的军队成了整个欧洲的笑柄。
OriginMiddle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin. verb [with object]informal Eat (something) quickly and greedily. 狼吞虎咽地吃 she scoffed down several chops Compare with scarf a lizard scoffing up insects Example sentencesExamples - As I don't, I scoffed the lot with a good deal of plain rice for mopping up.
- I'm only responsible for scoffing the plain ones.
- Luckily, Carrie is well practised at disguising her vegetarianism and has been known to scoff hamburgers whole just to throw people off her scent.
- Igor was busy most of the time scoffing a hamburger, which he propped up on the music stand before and after solos.
- She scoffed her food down quickly.
- But I still detected some misgivings - and not only among the press corps scoffing moussaka between briefings.
- Kerri's appetite was well and truly back as she scoffed them and talked to Danielle about girly things.
- It would be unwise to keep Koi if you live on the flight path of migrating osprey - they'll scoff the lot, as will herons.
- For the record I scoffed a tiny tub of blackcurrant so purple it sent my teeth mauve, and another of gooseberry and elderflower.
- As if to prove the point, she whipped out a large pile of ham and scoffed the lot.
- I'm ashamed to say it now, but in a moment of weakness I scoffed them as the plate swept past me on the way to your table.
- So, instead of eating a roll of Munchies I would scoff a handful of blueberries.
- If the locals aren't scoffing ripe fruit and fresh pasta from the table they are lying flat out on it, getting a massage.
- However, she says the single life does have its advantages including being able to scoff junk food in front of the TV and have the privacy of your own bathroom.
- Hedge your bets by planting different species, as it is unlikely that the birds will scoff the lot.
- He scoffed the rest of his appetizer as Wendy made her way to the kitchen.
- You changed clothes when you got to the airlock on the Moon, but Adam planned to scoff his candies on the shuttle.
- Crab risotto and rib-eye steaks are scoffed by families on holiday and hungry yachties.
- I was to nervous to eat much, but I had watched them scoff their food down quickly as we made our way to the back door of the club.
- But what makes this weekend off so much more special than the rest is the fact that we have an excuse to scoff countless numbers of chocolate Easter eggs.
Synonyms eat, devour, consume, guzzle, gobble, wolf down, polish off, finish off, gulp down, bolt
noun informal Food. 食物 Example sentencesExamples - You can't have the Michelangelo of scoff waving to all corners for ketchup.
- A celebrity in a search of a fast buck can do a lot worse than lend their name to a range of scoff.
Synonyms food, fare, eatables, refreshments
OriginLate 18th century (as a verb): originally a variant of Scots and dialect scaff. The noun is via Afrikaans from Dutch schoft ‘quarter of a day, work shift’, (by extension) ‘meal’. |