mock

mock

mock (third-person singular simple present mocks, present participle mocking, simple past and past participle mocked)

1. To mimic, to simulate.
2. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To tantalise, and disappoint (the hopes of).
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act V, Scene III:

     And with his spirit sadly I survive, / to mock the expectations of the world; / to frustrate prophecies, and to raze out / rotten opinion [...]

   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene III:

     ""It is the greene-eyd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on.""

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?

   • 1765, Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespears text, page 563 (a commentary on the ""mocke the meate"" line from Othello):

     ‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.

   • 1812, The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature, page 190:

     The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.

mock (plural mocks)

1. An imitation, usually with the connotation that its one of lesser quality.
2. Mockery, the act of mocking.
3. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.

   He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.

mock (not comparable)

1. imitation, not genuine. (mock turtle soup, mock leather); fake

	deridere
	Treat or speak of with contempt.

	finto
	act of mocking

	imitare
	to mimic

	simulato
	act of mocking

	deludere
	to disappoint someone

	derisione
	act of mocking

	parodiare
	to mimic

	sbeffeggiare
	to taunt

	schernire
	to taunt

	scimmiottare
	to taunt

beffare

beffeggiare

burlare

burlarsi

canzonare

contraffare

corbellare

dileggiare

falso

imitato

imitazione

irridere

prendere in giro

vanificare

Altri significati:

A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.

imitation, not genuine. (mock turtle soup, mock leather); fake

practice exam

to mimic, to simulate

Mockery, the act of mocking.

imitation

to make fun of by mimicking, to taunt

An imitation, usually with the connotation that it's one of lesser quality.

imitation, not genuine

Traduzione 'veloce'

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