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English
Etymology
From mock + -ful.
Adjective
mockful (comparative more mockful, superlative most mockful)
- (obsolete) mocking
- a 1868, Robert Buchanan, Edburga, in Tragic Dramas from Scottish History, volume 2, 1868
- Why dost thou phrase it thus / With that meek air of mockful ceremony? / Dost thou mistrust my love?
1847, William Thom, Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-loom Weaver, page 76:For these are but mockful and treacherous things — / The thorns that "crackle" to sharpen their stings.