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English
Etymology
scoff + -er
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Noun
scoffer (plural scoffers)
- One who scoffs or mocks.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 267:Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.
- (UK, slang) One who eats a large amount.
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