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scoffer
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Princeton's WordNet
scoffer, gorgernoun
someone who eats food rapidly and greedily
scoffer, flouter, mocker, jeerernoun
someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
Wiktionary
scoffernoun
One who scoffs.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Scoffernoun
Insolent ridiculer; saucy scorner; contumelious reproacher.
Etymology: from scoff.
I must tell you friendly in your ear,
Sell when you can; you are not for all markets:
Cry the man mercy, love him, take his offer;
Foul is most foul, being found to be a scoffer. William Shakespeare.Divers have herded themselves amongst these profane scoffers, not that they are convinced by their reasons, but terrified by their contumelies. Government of the Tongue.
Consider what the apostle tells these scoffers they were ignorant of, not that there was a deluge; but he tells them, that they were ignorant that the heavens and the earth of old were so and so constituted. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.
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scoffer
A scoffer is a person who expresses scorn, ridicule, contempt or derision, often by speaking or behaving in a mocking or dismissive way. They typically express negative or cynical attitudes towards ideas or individuals they disagree with.
Webster Dictionary
Scoffernoun
one who scoffs
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of scoffer in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of scoffer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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