noun
Meaning 1
A person who mocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mocker
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, cot-caught-merger: /ˈmɑkɚ/
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General-American: /ˈmɔkɚ/ without the cot–caught merger
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British, Southern, Standard: /ˈmɔkə/
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noun
Meaning 2
A mockingbird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A deceiver; an impostor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 4
long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mockingbird, Mimus polyglotktos
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: oscine, oscine bird
noun
Meaning 5
someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scoffer, flouter, jeerer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unpleasant person, disagreeable person
History
Etymology
From mock + -er.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: posměváček — one who mocks
- Faroese: spottari — one who mocks
- French: moqueur — one who mocks
- German: Spötter — one who mocks
- German: Spottdrossel — one who mocks
- German: Verspotter — one who mocks
- Greek: περιπαιχτικός (peripaichtikós) — one who mocks
- Ancient Greek: καταγελαστής (katagelastḗs) — one who mocks
- Ancient Greek: μωκός (mōkós) — one who mocks
- Latin: irrīsor — one who mocks
- Macedonian: исмејувач (ismejuvač) — one who mocks
- Middle English: scornere — one who mocks
- Plautdietsch: Spetta — one who mocks
- Polish: kpiarz — one who mocks
- Russian: насмешник (nasmešnik) — one who mocks
- Spanish: burlón — one who mocks
- Spanish: burlona — one who mocks
- Swedish: hånare — one who mocks
- Swedish: bespottare — one who mocks
- Turkish: alaycı — one who mocks
- Walloon: laweu — one who mocks
- Walloon: foteu — one who mocks
- Walloon: foteu d' djins — one who mocks