mockery

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English mokkery, from Anglo-Norman mokerie, mokery and Middle French mocquerie, moquerie, from moquer, moker (“to mock”) + -erie (“-ery”), perhaps from Byzantine Greek μωκός (mōkós, “mocker”), perhaps from Arabic مَكْر (makr, “scheme, plot”). Equivalent to mock +‎ -ery. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɒkəɹi/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑkəɹi/ === 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 Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:ridicule ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ====