Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which mocks, as by mimicry, derision, or deceit.
- noun A mocking-bird; one of the Miminæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.
- noun A deceiver; an impostor.
- noun (Zoöl.) A mocking bird.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who
mocks - noun a
mocking bird
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
- noun long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
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Examples
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I've been where you and the others are - I was a 'mocker' too.
CNN.com 2010
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Now, the mocker is the Floreana Mockingbird, which according to Karen is "the bird that inspired Darwin to doubt the
Lecturer Notes 2008
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'mocker' in medical practise that it has been pronounced in holy writ.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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Shipping Girl Genius (and Other Trivial Matters) "Although strong drink is a mocker, I find that I need to be mocked."
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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This change was supposed to be championed at institutions of higher learning and technology, even though Tyler's mocker was allegedly a college student, and his weapon was a high-tech video camera.
Tom Davis: Whatever Happened to Tyler Clementi? Tom Davis 2010
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It took me a long time to realize that Oprah is not my friend, she is really a mocker of faithful, (dowdy?), mothers, even though she says her biggest mission is to help us moms out (by giving us all make-overs, I guess - that's everyone's answer to all problems).
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He is a breaker of oaths, a burner of deeds, a mocker of laws — at least, from the pronomian perspective.
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Shipping Girl Genius (and Other Trivial Matters) "Although strong drink is a mocker, I find that I need to be mocked."
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As a regular myspace mocker I had to love this one.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: Pencils Ahoy! 2007
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G rejected, Summers should be a shoo-in with the Senate, and now Obama can have his woman-mocker in place like he wanted all along.
Tim Geithner — does he belong in the Cabinet or the prison? Ann Althouse 2009
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