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Meanings of mocker (mockers) in English

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mofeta

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

mofeta

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

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Examples for "mockingbird"
Examples for "mockingbird"
1
All Randy heard was a mockingbird tuning up for his morning aria.
Alas, Babylon
2
We have but one real nocturnal songster, and that is the mockingbird.
Locusts and Wild Honey
3
Cautiously, Gordon sought out the blackberry blind, with its irate resident mockingbird.
The Postman
4
The mockingbird sang on, but the garden appeared to darken and grow cold.
Lewis Rand
5
A mockingbird did his best to sing louder than all the other birds.
Dead ever after
Usage of mockers in English
1
From under his creased brows he glowered with hate at the mockers.
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
2
Their weapons were ready, the mockers were trained, the prowlers were waiting.
Space Prison
3
Talkers of grace are but mockers of God, but flatterers of God.
The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works
4
How gayly would he have turned the weapons of the mockers on themselves.
The Eve of the French Revolution
5
Sandra's unexpected arrival had put the mockers on that, hadn't it?
Another life
6
These mockers were contented to take their opinions on trust from priests and rabbis.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
7
He belonged to what the late but routed "soreheads" termed "the mockers."
The High School Left End; or, Dick & Co. Grilling on the Footbal...
8
They were heavily armed, their prowlers beside them and their mockers on their shoulders.
Space Prison
9
I never was one of those mockers-thoseJacobins, those sans-culottes!
Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance
10
The triumph of mockers is soon over; truth endures, and their foolish laughter dies away.
Emile
11
You are all mockers, and I am going home.
The Oracle Glass
12
Even other species of mockers retire from the scene.
The new yorker
13
He catches up the mockers' words, and retorts them.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
14
What matter the scoffs of mockers, if God approves?
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
15
The mockers are almost invariably rare insects; the mocked in almost every case abounds in swarms.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
16
The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers.
Representative Men: Seven Lectures
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Mockers through the time