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MOCKER (mocker)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mocker mean? 

MOCKER (noun)
  The noun MOCKER has 2 senses:

1. someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derisionplay

2. long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birdsplay

  Familiarity information: MOCKER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOCKER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

flouter; jeerer; mocker; scoffer

Hypernyms ("mocker" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Derivation:

mock (treat with contempt)

mock (imitate with mockery and derision)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Mimus polyglotktos; mocker; mockingbird

Hypernyms ("mocker" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Holonyms ("mocker" is a member of...):

genus Mimus; Mimus (type genus of the family Mimidae: mockingbirds)


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