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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

mocking
     adj 1: abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive
            laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile";
            "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn: derisive,
             gibelike, jeering, taunting]
     2: playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a
        somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence
        Durrell [syn: teasing, quizzical]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.
Mocking \Mock"ing\, a.
   Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision;
   mimicking; derisive.

   Mocking bird (Zo["o]l.), a North American singing bird
      (Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations
      of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail
      and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing;
      the outer tail feathers are partly white. The name is also
      applied to other species of the same genus, found in
      Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies.

   Mocking thrush (Zo["o]l.), any species of the genus
      Harporhynchus, as the brown thrush (H. rufus).

   Mocking wren (Zo["o]l.), any American wren of the genus
      Thryothorus, esp. T. Ludovicianus.