All 32 Uses of
mock
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- —The mockery of it!†
Chpt 1mockery = something that is ridiculous
- —The mockery of it, he said contentedly.†
Chpt 1
- To me it's all a mockery and beastly.†
Chpt 1
- Words Mulligan had spoken a moment since in mockery to the stranger.†
Chpt 1
- Idle mockery.†
Chpt 1
- But the courtiers who mocked Guido in Or san Michele were in their own house.†
Chpt 3mocked = made fun of
- —Afraid of the chickens she is, he said mockingly.†
Chpt 4 *mockingly = in a manner intended to make fun of
- —Like fellows who had blown up the Bastile, J. J. O'Molloy said in quiet mockery.†
Chpt 7mockery = something that is ridiculous
- To revert to Mr Bloom who, after his first entry, had been conscious of some impudent mocks which he however had borne with as being the fruits of that age upon which it is commonly charged that it knows not pity.†
Chpt 14mocks = makes fun of
- A week ago she lay ill, four days on the couch, but today she was free, blithe, mocked at peril.†
Chpt 14mocked = made fun of
- (Her hands passing slowly over her trinketed stomacher, a slow friendly mockery in her eyes) O Poldy, Poldy, you are a poor old stick in the mud†
Chpt 15mockery = something that is ridiculous
- Lynch indicates mockingly the couple at the piano.†
Chpt 15mockingly = in a manner intended to make fun of
- And her hair is dyed gold and he... BELLO: (Laughs mockingly) That's your daughter, you owl, with a Mullingar student.†
Chpt 15
- THE BOOTS: (Jogging, mocks them with thumb and wriggling wormfingers) Haw haw have you the horn?†
Chpt 15mocks = makes fun of
- Perfectly shocking terrific of religion's things mockery seen in universal world.†
Chpt 15mockery = something that is ridiculous
- BUCK MULLIGAN: (Shakes his curling capbell) The mockery of it!†
Chpt 15
- A horde of heresies fleeing with mitres awry: Photius and the brood of mockers of whom Mulligan was one, and Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ's terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.†
Chpt 1
- Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides, dark men in mien and movement, flashing in their mocking mirrors the obscure soul of the world, a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.†
Chpt 2
- He smiled, glancing askance at her mocking eyes.†
Chpt 4
- A STREET CORTEGE Both smiled over the crossblind at the file of capering newsboys in Mr Bloom's wake, the last zigzagging white on the breeze a mocking kite, a tail of white bowknots.†
Chpt 7
- Brood of mockers: Photius, pseudomalachi, Johann Most.†
Chpt 9
- The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.†
Chpt 9
- They talked seriously of mocker's seriousness.†
Chpt 9
- Him Satan fleers, Mocker: And therefore he left out her name From the first draft but he did not leave out The presents for his granddaughter, for his daughters, For his sister, for his old cronies in Stratford And in London.†
Chpt 9
- They mock to try you.†
Chpt 9
- So long as women don't mock what matter?†
Chpt 13
- Then did some mock and some jeer and Punch Costello fell hard again to his yale which Master Lenehan vowed he would do after and he was indeed but a word and a blow on any the least colour.†
Chpt 14
- LYNCH: (With a mocking whinny of laughter grins at Bloom and Zoe Higgins) What a learned speech, eh?†
Chpt 15
- ZOE: (Her head perched aside in mock pride) Is that the way to hand the pot to a lady?†
Chpt 15
- Squinting in mock shame she glances with sidelong meaning at Bloom, then twists round towards him, pulling her slip free of the poker†
Chpt 15 *
- RICHIE GOULDING: (Bagweighted, passes the door) Mocking is catch.†
Chpt 15
- Laughing, linked, high haircombs flashing, they catch the sun in mocking mirrors, lifting their arms.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(mock as in: don't mock me) make fun of (ridicule--sometimes by imitating in an exaggerated manner)
or (more rarely): just to make fun or to be ridiculous without targeting anyone as a victimThese senses of mockery come together when a comedian pokes fun at a politician by pretending to be the politician and saying ridiculous things. -
(2)
(mock as in: a mock trial) not real
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, mock can refer to a way of preparing food. Mockers can be an abbreviation for mockingbirds.