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Scoffer

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Noun

1. gorger, scoffer

someone who eats food rapidly and greedily

2. flouter, jeerer, mocker, scoffer

someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Scoffer

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verb
1. (intransitive; often foll by at)
to speak contemptuously (about); express derision (for); mock
2. (transitive) obsolete
to regard with derision
noun
3. 
an expression of derision
4. 
an object of derision
verb
1. 
to eat (food) fast and greedily; devour
noun
2. 
food or rations

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Scoffer

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noun
1. 
an expression of mocking contempt, scorn, or derision; jeer
2. 
an object of mocking contempt, scorn, etc.
verb transitive
3. 
to mock at or deride
verb intransitive
4. 
to show mocking contempt, scorn, or derision, esp. by language; jeer
noun
1.  Chiefly British, Slang
food or rations
verb transitive, verb intransitive Slang
2. 
to eat or devour
3. 
to plunder or seize

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Scoffer

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v. scoffed, scoff·ing, scoffs
v.intr.
To show or express derision or scorn: scoffed at their complaints.
v.tr.
To say in a derisive manner: "Are you confused yet?" the instructor scoffed.
v. scoffed, scoff·ing, scoffs
Slang
v.tr.
To eat (food) quickly and greedily.
v.intr.
To eat greedily.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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