scoffer

/'skɔfə/

Thân thiện

A scoffer at the back of the lecture hall rolls his eyes and smirks.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person who expresses scorn, mockery, or contempt: A scoffer is someone who jeers, mocks, or treats something with derision, often showing disrespect for ideas, beliefs, or people.
   • A person who eats food rapidly and greedily: A scoffer is someone who consumes food quickly and in a gluttonous manner.

Examples of Usage

• Noun (mocker):
  • The prophet faced many scoffers who ridiculed his warnings.
  • He was a scoffer, dismissing every new idea with a sarcastic comment.
• Noun (gluttonous eater):
  • At the buffet, he was a real scoffer, piling his plate high and eating voraciously.
  • The teenage scoffer finished the entire pizza in minutes.

Advanced Usage

• "To be the scoffer in the room": to be the person who habitually expresses cynical or mocking disbelief.
  • In every serious discussion, he was the scoffer in the room, undermining the conversation with his sneers.

Variants and Related Words

• Scoff (verb): to speak about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way; to eat something quickly and greedily.
  • He would scoff at the notion of working for free.
  • The children managed to scoff all the cookies.
• Scoffingly (adverb): in a mocking or contemptuous manner.
  • She laughed scoffingly at the proposal.

Synonyms

• For the mocker: mocker, scorner, derider, cynic, sneerer, jeerer.
• For the gluttonous eater: glutton, gorger, guzzler, gobbler.

Related Phrases

• "To scoff at": to express contempt or derision for something.
  • They scoffed at the old superstitions.

Học thuật

Noun

1. someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
2. someone who eats food rapidly and greedily

Từ đồng nghĩa

• flouter
• mocker
• jeerer
• gorger