Definitions
To mock or jeer; also to eat quickly.
Word origin
From Middle English scof, skof, probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Old Norse skaup, Old Danish skof, Old Frisian skof (“insult, shame”), and Old High German scoph.
Used in a sentence
“"I believe you've killed that constable in the exercise of his duty, sir; the man's dead;" said Lowe, sternly. / "Another gloss on my text; why invade me like house-breakers?" said Dangerfield, with a grim scoff.”
“There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […]”
“[T]he scoff of wither'd age and beardless youth […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Derisive laugh”5 letters
02“Speak with contempt”5 letters
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