MOCKERY

parody, mockery, takeoff

(noun) humorous or satirical mimicry

jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing

(noun) showing your contempt by derision

parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, send-up, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, pasquinade, put-on

(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody’s style, usually in a humorous way

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

mockery (countable and uncountable, plural mockeries)

The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.

Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.

(obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.

Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.

Usage notes

• We often use make a mockery of someone or something, meaning to mock them. See also Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Synonyms

• See also ridicule

Source: Wiktionary

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Mock"er*y, n.; pl. Mockeries. Etym: [F. moquerie.]

1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law. And bear about the mockery of woe. Pope.

2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule. The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. Spenser.

3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport. The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery. 2 Macc. viii. 17.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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