mock

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To laugh at someone or something in an unkind way.

   The other children mocked him for his old clothes.

2. 2
   adj

   Not real, but made to look or act like the real thing for practice or imitation.

   The students took a mock exam before the real test.

3. 3
   noun

   A practice examination taken before the real one.

   He got a B in his history mock but an A in the actual exam.

From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk…

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