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Перевод: scoff

[существительное]
насмешка ; посмешище; еда [жарг.] ; жратва [жарг.] ;
[глагол]
насмехаться; зубоскалить; издеваться; засмеять; глумиться; есть с жадностью; жрать

Тезаурус:

1. He expected Charity to scoff at such weakness, but surprisingly, she seemed only to be concerned with how that could be arranged.
2. You scoff at me and my " one " man friend, you who have so many, but dear girl I have learnt more in the short time of my friendship with Edward, more of the world, of men as distinct from women, and man as an individual than in all my life I have learnt before.
3. For on nearly every American campus there is an atelier in the shape of a "Creative Writing programme", whereas on no British campus is there any such thing, and indeed the British scoff at the mere possibility - on precisely the grounds that Newbolt here puts forward.
4. Northampton romped away with the Fourth Division championship in 1986-87 and whenever Reed had an off-day his manager, Graham Carr, loved to scoff: "Rambo?
5. Many of Sir Peter's fellow company chairmen will scoff at such socialist sentiments.
6. Some of Koons' colleagues scoff at the Cicciolina affair, dismissing it as yet another publicity ploy, the perfect merger between two media personalities, and a disguise for a small talent.
7. No doubt there are modern adepts who might scoff at our amateur efforts, but that's just what we were, amateurs struggling in a land for the E6 leader or the A3 and A4 aider, without being able to do either.
8. Western diplomats in Luanda scoff at that figure, though they admit that many do need help.
9. I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers' lathes being used for woodturners, but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe - if at all.
10. Yet addiction specialists scoff at the notion that someone who already faces death through overdose or through contracting Aids from hypodermic needles is likely to change his behavour because of a drug test.
11. We may scoff at the sort of community action that was represented by ducking-stools and pillories, by "sending to Coventry" and by, in its extremest form, lynch law.
12. Cynics may scoff that he is yet another stiff-upper-lip, old-soldier type, having come like so many of the august men of the Club from a military background before moving on to sugar.