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Mock   /mɑk/   Listen
adjective
Mock  adj.  Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. "That superior greatness and mock majesty."
Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places.
Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem.
Mock lead. See Blende (a).
Mock nightingale (Zool.), the European blackcap.
Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. Philadelphus coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless.
Mock sun. See Parhelion.
Mock turtle soup, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup.
Mock velvet, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.


verb
Mock  v. t.  (past & past part. mocked; pres. part. mocking)  
1.
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."
2.
To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. "Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud." "Let not ambition mock their useful toil."
3.
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."
Synonyms: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride.


Mock  v. i.  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."


noun
Mock  n.  
1.
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."
2.
Imitation; mimicry. (R.)





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"Mock" Quotes from Famous Books



... we here?" drawled Arnold in mock courtesy and surprise as he found and drew forth from Smith's pocket a bundle of papers, ...
— The Romance of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... front of me opened, and she was in the room with me. There she was, curtseying low in mock obeisance ...
— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope
... thousands will be disappointed, if they are not made of that stuff which can brave hardship, and triumph over the wild work of pioneer colonisation. Now and then we see accounts of unsuspecting emigrants having been deluded and robbed by a mock 'company,' whose ships are perhaps in the moon, for they are never seen in terrestrial seas; but with so many facilities as now exist for getting a passage in a straightforward, business-like way, it is not easy to understand how ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 - Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 • Various
... to keep it from laughing, the girl that was named Barbara had come up very close to me, and I was minded to slip my arm about her waist and draw her closer with a view to the kissing of lips. But she had only neighbored me to mock me, for she cried aloud, "Mirror of chivalry, I will give you a Guelph cuff on your Ghibelline cheek." And as she spoke, being a girl of spirit, she kept her word very roundly, and fetched me a box on the ear with her brown hand that ...
— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... your heart can never be his, do you think he will not surfer more, will not his sufferings be longer drawn out than if you told him so frankly now? If the break was to come now, to come and be ended for ever—but to live together, to live a mock life, to live beneath the same roof, to share one another's lives, and yet know one another's souls to be miles and miles apart—oh, Joan, you would suffer, and he too, he perhaps ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper


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