Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gobble up: same as
scoff , 2.
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Examples
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In speaking of the performance the Commissioner said: "My guest came to 'skoff' and remained to pray."
An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918
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Out there food is commonly known as "skoff," just as "chop" is the equivalent in the Congo.
An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918
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This is starting to look more like a bubble, and you know how that works, people skoff at the risk until the crash arrives.
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Professional investors skoff at me for buying too early, but at least I know where things are going.
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This is starting to look more like a bubble, and you know how that works, people skoff at the risk until the crash arrives.
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I'd point and laugh and skoff, except so am I. Taj councils Eddie to be careful where he grabs the scorpions.
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'Rather bad about his running out of skoff, isn't it?' he asked.
Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910
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'Give him some skoff and a bit of meat, Jim,' he said.
Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910
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They did not even take offence when some of the rougher men called them "blarsted Dutchmen," and refused to converse with them, or buy their "skoff."
The Defence of Duffer's Drift Ernest Dunlop Swinton 1909
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Don't skoff about questions about sex & pretend you are an asexual robot who gets orgasms from music if you're gonna writh around on a couch for half your video like any other regular old girl pop singer.
unknown title 2009
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