scoff的词源

英文词源

scoff (v.)

mid-14c., "jest, make light of something;" mid-15c., "make fun of, mock," from the noun meaning "contemptuous ridicule" (c. 1300), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skaup, skop "mockery, ridicule," Middle Danish skof "jest, mockery;" perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, *skuf- (cognates: Old English scop "poet," Old High German scoph "fiction, sport, jest, derision"), from PIE *skeubh- "to shove" (see shove (v.)).

中文词源

scoff：嘲笑，嘲弄

来自古诺斯语 skop,嘲笑，嘲讽，同古英语 scop,游吟诗人，来自 Proto-Germanic*skapiz,形成， 创作，来自 PIE*skep,砍，切，削，词源同 shape.

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