mid-14c., "jest, make light of something;" mid-15c., "make fun of, mock," from the noun meaning "contemptuous ridicule" (c. 1300), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skaup, skop "mockery, ridicule," Middle Danish skof "jest, mockery;" perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, *skuf- (cognates: Old English scop "poet," Old High German scoph "fiction, sport, jest, derision"), from PIE *skeubh- "to shove" (see shove (v.)).
雙語例句
1. You may scoff but I honestly feel I'm being cruel only to be kind.
你可能不以為然，但我真的認為我狠下心來只是出于一片好意。
來自柯林斯例句
2. You are not supposed to scoff at religion .
你不該嘲弄宗教。
來自辭典例句
3. Citizens of other cities may scoff at Melbourne's brown river.
其他城市的居民或許會嘲笑墨爾本的褐色泥漿河.
來自百科語句
4. I was no more to her than a morsel of scoff in the fuel - house.
我在她的眼里還不如柴房里的一小堆木屑.
來自辭典例句
5. There was purpose and feeling, banter and scoff playing, mingled , on her mobile lineaments.