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mocker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mocker has 2 senses
- mocker(n = noun.person) flouter, jeerer, scoffer - someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision; Array is a kind of disagreeable person, unpleasant person
- mocker(n = noun.animal) mimus polyglotktos, mockingbird - long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds; Array is a kind of oscine, oscine bird
Derived forms verb mock1, verb mock2
is a member of genus mimus, mimus
CIDE DICTIONARY
mocker, n.
- One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider. [1913 Webster]
- A deceiver; an impostor. [1913 Webster]
- A mocking bird. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mocker, n. a person who mocks.
Idiom
put the mockers on sl.
1 bring bad luck to.
2 put a stop to.
1 bring bad luck to.
2 put a stop to.
THESAURUS
mocker
ape, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, forger, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mockingbird, monkey, parrot, phony, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, sheep, simulator
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