Scoff

Synonyms for scoff:

Sense 1

guffaw, chuckle, chortle, snicker, twit, snigger, Fleer.

Sense 2

titter, bray.

Sense 3

quiz, cackle, giggle, laugh.

Sense 5

hoot.

Sense 7

peal, roar, howl.

laugh at

lampoon.

ridicule

twit, gibe.

snigger

snigger.

Sense 1 (noun)

hoot, giggle, chuckle, howl, snicker, roar, snigger.

scoff (noun)

gibe, flout, barrack, jeer, mockery, jeering, scoffing.

make fun of; despise (verb)

gibe, flout, jeer, ridicule, rag, deride, scorn, ride, mock, sneer.

ridicule (verb)

jest, mock, humiliate, deprecate, mimic, insult, gibe, ride, roast, deride, jeer, joke, denigrate, ridicule, caricature, burlesque, kid, razz, quip, sneer, taunt, rag.

Usage examples for scoff:

• I do not say the experience was so explicit as all this; no experience so mystical could be so explicit; and perhaps what was intimated to me in it was only that if I sometime meant to ask some gentle reader's company in a retrospect of my Spanish travels, I had better be honest with him and own at the beginning that passion for Spanish things which was the ruling passion of my boyhood; I had better confess that, however unrequited, it held me in the eager bondage of a lover still, so that I never wished to escape from it, but must try to hide the fact whenever the real Spain fell below the ideal, however I might reason with my infatuation or try to scoff it away. - "Familiar Spanish Travels", W. D. Howells.
• In the looks turned upon her she read that no one would scoff at her. - "The Song of Songs", Hermann Sudermann.