scoff
scoff1
verb
scoffer
noun
scoffingly
adverb
语源
scoff2
(informal, chiefly Brit.)(非正式，主英)
verb
verb
- [no obj.]speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way
嘲弄，嘲笑，讥笑
Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films.
帕特里克承认嘲笑了电影里感伤的故作多情的场面。
[with direct speech]‘You, a scientist?’ he scoffed.
“你，科学家？”他嘲笑道。
- an expression of scornful derision
嘲笑的话
■(archaic)an object of ridicule
(古)笑料，笑柄
his army was the scoff of all Europe.
他的军队成了整个欧洲的笑柄。
scoffer
noun
scoffingly
adverb
语源
- Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense 'mockery, scorn'): perhaps of Scandinavian origin
scoff2
(informal, chiefly Brit.)(非正式，主英)
verb
- [with obj.]eat (something) quickly and greedily
狼吞虎咽地吃
he can scoff a cannelloni faster than you can drink a pint.
他吃一个意式烤碎肉卷能比你喝一品脱饮料还快。
- [mass noun]food
食物
- late 18th cent. (as a verb): originally a variant of Scots and dialect scaff. The noun is from Afrikaans schoff, representing Dutch schoft 'quarter of a day', (by extension) 'meal'
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