scoffery
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
scoffery (usually uncountable, plural scofferies)
- The act of scoffing; mockery.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- King Henrie the fift in his beginning thought it a meere scofferie to pursue anie fallow deere with hounds or greihounds
References edit
- “scoffery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.