All 8 Uses of
mock
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
- What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes.†
Scene 1.3mockery = something that is ridiculous OR the teasing of someone in a disrespectful manner
- If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!
Scene 3.3 *mocks = makes fun of (ridicules)
- Dost thou mock me?
Scene 4.1mock = make fun of
- I mock you! no, by heaven.
Scene 4.1
- O mistress, villainy hath made mocks with love!†
Scene 5.2mocks = makes fun of
- Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her; For I'll refer me to all things of sense, If she in chains of magic were not bound, Whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy, So opposite to marriage that she shunn'd The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, Would ever have, to incur a general mock, Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou,—to fear, not to delight.†
Scene 1.2
- O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on: that cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!†
Scene 3.3
- O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock, To lip a wanton in a secure couch, And to suppose her chaste!†
Scene 4.1
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) Less commonly, mock can refer to a way of preparing food. Mockers can be an abbreviation for mockingbirds.