Definitions for scoffs

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

Scoffs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in scoffs (cffoss).

Definitions for scoffs

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 scoffs

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

Examples for scoffs

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for scoffs
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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