scoff

scoff
I intransitive verb
(mock) spotten

scoffing remarks — spöttische Bemerkungen

scoff at somebody/something — sich über jemanden/etwas lustig machen

II 1.
(sl.)transitive verb (eat greedily) verschlingen
2. intransitive verb
sich [(Dat.) den Bauch] vollschlagen (salopp)
* * *
[skof]
verb
((sometimes with at) to express scorn: She scoffed at my poem.) spotten
* * *
scoff1
[skɒf, AM skɑ:f]
I. vi spotten; (laugh) lachen
to \scoff at sth/sb sich akk über etw/jdn lustig machen
II. n Spott m
scoff2
[skɒf, AM skɑ:f]
vt esp BRIT (fam: eat)
to \scoff sth etw verschlingen
to \scoff sth down/up etw hinunterschlingen fam
* * *
I [skɒf]
1. n
verächtliche or abschätzige Bemerkung
2. vi
spotten

to scoff at sb/sth — jdn/etw verachten; (verbally) sich verächtlich or abschätzig über jdn/etw äußern

II (Brit inf)
1. n
(= food) Fressalien pl (inf); (= eating) Fresserei f (inf)
2. vt
futtern (inf), in sich (acc) hineinstopfen (inf)

she scoffed the lot — sie hat alles verputzt (inf) or verdrückt (inf)

* * *
scoff1 [skɒf; US auch skɑf]
A s
1. Spott m
2. (das) Gespött (der Leute etc), Zielscheibe f des Spotts
3. spöttische Bemerkung
B v/i spotten (at über akk)
scoff2 [skɒf; US auch skɑf] besonders Br umg
A s Futter n (Nahrung)
B v/t & v/i futtern, gierig essen
* * *
I intransitive verb
(mock) spotten

scoffing remarks — spöttische Bemerkungen

scoff at somebody/something — sich über jemanden/etwas lustig machen

II 1.
(sl.)transitive verb (eat greedily) verschlingen
2. intransitive verb
sich [(Dat.) den Bauch] vollschlagen (salopp)
* * *
n.
Hohn nur sing. m.
Spott nur sing. m.

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