scoffer

English

Etymology

scoff +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Noun

scoffer (plural scoffers)

One who scoffs or mocks.
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 267:
  Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.
(UK, slang) One who eats a large amount.

Translations

one who scoffs or mocks

Bulgarian: присмехулник m (prismehulnik)
Latin: irrīsor m
Plautdietsch: Spetta m

Anagrams

Coffers, coffers

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