mid-14c., "jest, make light of something;" mid-15c., "make fun of, mock," from the noun meaning "contemptuous ridicule" (c. 1300), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skaup, skop "mockery, ridicule," Middle Danish skof "jest, mockery;" perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, *skuf- (cognates: Old English scop "poet," Old High German scoph "fiction, sport, jest, derision"), from PIE *skeubh- "to shove" (see shove (v.)).
例文
1. You may scoff but I honestly feel I 'm being cruel only to be kind.
あなたはそう思わないかもしれませんが、私は本当に私が心を鬼にしたのは好意からだと思います。
2.You are not supposed to scoff at religion.
宗教をからかうべきではありません。
3.Citizens of other cities may scoff at Melbourne 's brown river.
他の都市の住民はメルボルンの褐色泥水河を笑うかもしれない。
4.I was no more to her than a morsel of scoff in the fuel-house.
彼女の目には薪小屋の中の木くずの山ほど見えない。
5.There was purpose and feeling,banter and scoff playing,mingled,on her mobile lineaments.