Mocking

CIDE DICTIONARY

Mocking, a. 

 Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.  [1913 Webster]

Mocking thrush (Zoöl.), any species of the genus Harporhynchus, as the brown thrush (Harporhynchus rufus). -- Mocking wren (Zoöl.), any American wren of the genus Thryothorus, esp. Thryothorus Ludovicianus.

THESAURUS

Mocking

adoption, appropriation, assumption, bantering, booing, borrowed plumes, catcalling, chaffing, copying, derisive, derisory, derivation, deriving, fleering, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, imitation, infringement, jeering, joshing, kidding, leering, panning, pasticcio, pastiche, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, razzing, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, simulation, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taking, taunting, teasing, twitting

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Mocking

Repetition

N repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run, battology, tautology, monotony, tautophony, rhythm, diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy, chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain, rehearsal, rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation, cuckoo, reverberation, drumming, renewal, twice-told tale, old story, old song, second edition, new edition, reappearance, reproduction, recursion, periodicity, repeated, repetitional, repetitionary, recurrent, recurring, ever recurring, thick coming, frequent, incessant, redundant, pleonastic, monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive, unvaried, mocking, chiming, retold, aforesaid, aforenamed, above-mentioned, above-said, habitual, another, repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more, ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo, again and again, over and over, over and over again, recursively, many times over, time and again, time after time, year after year, day by day, many times, several times, a number of times, many a time, full many a time, frequently, ecce iterum Crispinus, toujours perdrix, cut and come again, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, cantilenam eandem canis, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.

Ridicule

N ridicule, derision, sardonic smile, sardonic grin, irrision, scoffing, mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage, quizzing, asteism, squib, satire, skit, quip, quib, grin, parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie, farce, caricature, buffoonery, practical joke, horseplay, scorn, contempt, derisory, derisive, mock, mocking, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic, scurrilous, in ridicule.