Usually means: Mock or deride with contempt.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. scoff: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scoff: Merriam-Webster
  3. scoff, scoff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scoff, scoff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scoff: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scoff: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scoff, scoff: Wordnik
  8. scoff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scoff: Wiktionary
  10. scoff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scoff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scoff: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scoff: Dictionary.com
  14. scoff (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scoff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scoff (song), Scoff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scoff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scoff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scoff: Rhymezone
  20. scoff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scoff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scoff: FreeDictionary.org
  23. scoff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scoff: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scoff: Legal dictionary

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  1. scoff: Encyclopedia

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  1. scoff: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. scoff, scoff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scoff: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Scoff: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. Scoff, scoff: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scoffed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
noun:  An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
verb:  (intransitive) To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.
verb:  (transitive) To mock; to treat with scorn.
noun:  (Newfoundland, South Africa and British Army slang) Food.
noun:  (slang) The act of eating.
verb:  (British, Newfoundland, slang) To eat food quickly.
verb:  (Newfoundland, South Africa and British Army slang) To eat.

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