Definitions for scoff

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Spelling: [skawf, skof]
IPA: /skɔf, skɒf/

Scoff is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in scoff (cffos).

Definitions for scoff

noun

  1. an expression of mockery, derision, doubt, or derisive scorn; jeer.
  2. an object of mockery or derision.
  3. food; grub.

verb (used with object)

  1. to mock at; deride.

verb (used without object)

  1. to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at):

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to eat voraciously.

Origin of scoff

1300-50; Middle English scof; origin uncertain, but compare Old Norse skopa to scorn

Examples for scoff

They make kick ass cocktails, they break up fights, they scoff at the idea of 'girly' drinks.

The ratio—there are 492 billionaires in the U.S. and only 1,645 in the world—is nothing to scoff at.

Such messages are unlikely to be beloved of secularists who prefer to scoff at the religious rather than engage with them.

It seemed to me to rend the darkness, to scoff at my heart and my sweet reasonableness!

Any mother who reads this will, I think, scoff at the notion; and yet I think it was so.

There was a sort of scoff in it which rightly or wrongly he took to himself.

Spirit companies need to tell their PR agencies to stop trying to push them, and consumers should scoff at them.

When you hear what he has to say in Unstoppable about the emergence of a new bipartisan politics, you may be inclined to scoff.

People might scoff it; though for all that I shall work it out.

P—— C—— began to scoff at what I had said, but C—— stopped him.

Word Value for scoff
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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