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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mok(k)ing, Mocking, vbl. n. Also: moucking. [e.m.E. and ME. mokkyng (c 1440), mockynge, -ing.]
a. The action of Mok v.; an expression of mockery. Const. of the object or absol.(a) 1568 Buch. Indict. 47.
That vngodlie mariage that all the warld comptes nawchtie and a mokking of God c 1653 Beale Fife Schools 146.
[The school. master of Largo] much given to mocking and taunting(b) 1558-66 Knox II. 420.
Happyest wes he that coulde invent the moist … disdainfull mokingis of the mynisteris 1571 Lanark B. Rec. 55.
Of the quhilk disobeying and moking I besek your maister-shipis for rameid 1597–8 Reg. Privy C. V. 440.
Thair wilfull … moking of justice 1646 Alyth Par. Rec. 77.
b. An object of mockery, a laughing-stock. = Mok(k)ing-stok n. 1596 Bk. Univ. Kirk III. 866.
The publick place of repentance is turned in a mocking 1630 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 264.
We will be all lached at and med a moking to the world
c. Attrib. as adj.: Calculated to provoke ridicule, derisory. — 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 366.
He made every nobleman and knight drink a moucking bowle of sack in that postur
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