Mockery  

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Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe (1883) by Eugène Bataille

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Illustration: Toulouse-Lautrec wearing Jane Avril's Feathered Hat and Boa (ca. 1892), photo Maurice Guibert.

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1. To mimic, to simulate.
2. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
3. To tantalise, and disappoint (the hopes of).

Etymology

From Middle English mokken, from Middle French mocquer (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Old Saxon *mokkian, *mukkian (“to low, mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word”), Dutch dialectal mokkel (“kiss”).

Mock may refer to:

• Fake
• Faux
• Imaginary
• Insult
• Jeer
• Parody
• Pretending
• Simulation
• Mockup

See also

• Mockumentary
• Momus
• Ridicule
• Derision
• Mock-heroic
• Travesty
• Dada mock trial of Maurice Barrès
• Mock execution
• Mock funeral
• Make-believe