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- Ridicule - n. - An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
- Ridicule - n. - Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
- Ridicule - n. - Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
- Ridicule - v. t. - To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
- Ridicule - a. - Ridiculous.
- Ridiculed - imp. & p. p. - of Ridicule
- Ridiculer - n. - One who ridicules.
- Ridicule - v. t. - To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
- Mimic - v. t. - To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.
- Backare - interj. - Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.
- Banter - v. t. - To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
- Mock - n. - An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
- Lampoon - v. t. - To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.
- Burlesque - n. - An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
- Mouth - v. i. - To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
- Pointingstock - n. - An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock.
- Banter - v. t. - To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
- Chaff - v. t. - To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
- Deride - v. t. - To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
- Skimmington - n. - A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.
- Scoff - n. - To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
- Affix - v. t. - To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.
- Bergomask - n. - A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
- Smoke - v. t. - To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
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- G3456 μυκτηρίζω - 3456 μυκτηρίζω - ΜΥΚΤΗΡΊΖΩ - - myktērízō - mook-tay-rid'-zo - from a derivative of the base of μυκάομαι (meaning snout, as that whence lowing proceeds); to make mouths at, i.e. ridicule:--mock. - Verb - greek
- H7046 קָלַס - 7046 קָלַס - קָלַס - - qâlaç - kaw-las' - a primitive root; to disparage, i.e. ridicule; mock, scoff, scorn. - Verb - heb
- H7048 קַלָּסָה - 7048 קַלָּסָה - קַלָּסָה - - qallâçâh - kal-law-saw' - intensive from קָלַס; ridicule; mocking. - Noun Feminine - heb