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chivaree

a noisy mock serenade made by banging pans and kettles to a newly married couple

Scoff

Derision ridicule mockery derisive or mocking expression of scorn contempt or reproach

Sardonic

Forced unnatural insincere hence derisive mocking malignant or bitterly sarcastic applied only to a laugh smile or some facial semblance of gayety

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Mockingly

By way of derision in a contemptuous or mocking manner

Mockery

The act of mocking deriding and exposing to contempt by mimicry by insincere imitation or by a false show of earnestness a

Catbird

An American bird Galeoscoptes Carolinensis allied to the mocking bird and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds but less perfectly Its note resembles

Brown thrush

A common American singing bird Harporhynchus rufus allied to the mocking bird also called brown thrasher

Mockado

A stuff made in imitation of velvet probably the same as mock velvet

Inter canem et lupum

Inter canem et lupum (between the dog and the wolf), twilight; called also mock shadow, daylight's gate, and betwixt hawk and buzzard.

Competitive bidding

being sold or offered for sale by way of competitive bidding or before or after any such time, Mock Auctions Act, 1961, s. 3(5) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 943, p. 459.

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