scoff UK /skɒf/US /skɔːf/noun 4verb 4forms 4 noun4 •A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […] — 1852 •(slang) The act of eating.Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […] — 2016 •(South-Africa, slang) Food. •An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.[T]he scoff of wither'd age and beardless youth […] — 1782 verb4 •To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray. — 1770 •To mock; to treat with scorn. •(UK, slang) To eat food quickly.‘You got to own that this old Orlando Boop’s pretty hot stuff, having it out with the Baron for scoffing all the best food at his table.’ — 1936 •(South-Africa, slang) To eat. formsscoffed · scoffing · scoffeth · scoffs
