Meaning

2 senses
  1. One who scoffs or mocks.

    someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision

  2. (UK, slang)One who eats a large amount.

    someone who eats food rapidly and greedily

Origin

From scoff + -er.

From scoff + -er.

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Forms

plural: scoffers
Singularscoffer
Pluralscoffers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision:floutermockerjeerer
  • someone who eats food rapidly and greedily:gorger

Word family

1 related words
Relatedscoff

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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