mockingbird, mocker, Mimus polyglotktos
(noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
scoffer, flouter, mocker, jeerer
(noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mocker (plural mockers)
A person who mocks.
A mockingbird.
(archaic) A deceiver; an impostor.
Source: Wiktionary
Mock"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.
2. A deceiver; an impostor.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A mocking bird. Mocker nut (Bot.), a kind of hickory (Carya tomentosa) and its fruit, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
