OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 4263

mock

/mɒk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
imitar • remedar
To mimic, to simulate.
Mocking marriage with a dame of France.
To see the life as lively mocked as ever / Still sleep mocked death.
burlar • cachondear • chotear • fisgar • guasear • mofar • pitorrearse • tomar el pelo • vacilar
To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
decepcionar
To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
"It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."
The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!