Definition: mock

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

mock
     adj : constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock
           battle"
     v 1: treat with contempt; "The new constitution mocks all
          democratic principles" [syn: bemock]
     2: imitate (a person, a manner, etc.), esp. for satirical
        effect [syn: mimic, mime]
     3: imitate with mockery and derision; "The children mocked
        their handicapped classmate"

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mock \Mock\, n.
   1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous
      act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.

            Fools make a mock at sin.             --Prov. xiv.
                                                  9.

   2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] --Crashaw.

Mock \Mock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mocked; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Mocking.] [F. moquer, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. mocken
   to mumble, G. mucken, OSw. mucka.]
   1. To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt,
      or derision; to deride by mimicry.

            To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep
            mocked death.                         --Shak.

            Mocking marriage with a dame of France. --Shak.

   2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.

            Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. --1 Kings
                                                  xviii. 27.

            Let not ambition mock their useful toil. --Gray.

   3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as,
      to mock expectation.

            Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. --Judg. xvi.
                                                  13.

            He will not . . . Mock us with his blest sight, then
            snatch him hence.                     --Milton.

   Syn: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint.
        See Deride.

Mock \Mock\, a.
   Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed;
   sham.

         That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator.

   Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous
      herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places.

   Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic
      poem.

   Mock lead. See Blende (
   a ).

   Mock nightingale (Zo["o]l.), the European blackcap.

   Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs
      (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled
      cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers;
      the American kinds are nearly scentless.

   Mock sun. See Parhelion.

   Mock turtle soup, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or
      other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle
      soup.

   Mock velvet, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See
      Mockado.

Mock \Mock\, v. i.
   To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or
   jeering manner.

         When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
                                                  --Job xi. 3.

         She had mocked at his proposal.          --Froude.