scoff

noun

1. A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.

   “VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.”

   “"I believe you've killed that constable in the exercise of his duty, sir; the man's dead;" said Lowe, sternly. / "Another gloss on my text; why invade me like house-breakers?" said Dangerfield, with a grim scoff.”

   “There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […]”

2. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.

   “[T]he scoff of wither'd age and beardless youth […]”

3. (British-Army, Newfoundland, South-Africa, countable, slang, uncountable)Food.
4. (countable, slang, uncountable)The act of eating.

   “Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […]”

verb

1. (intransitive)To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.

   “Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.”

2. (transitive)To mock; to treat with scorn.
3. (British, Newfoundland, slang)To eat food quickly.

   “The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.”

4. (British-Army, Newfoundland, South-Africa, slang)To eat.