Associations to the word «Scoffing»

Wiktionary

SCOFFING, verb. Present participle of scoff
SCOFFING, noun. The act of one who scoffs; derision; mockery.

Dictionary definition

SCOFFING, noun. Showing your contempt by derision.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope