Crossword clues for mocker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mocker \Mock"er\, n.
One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.
A deceiver; an impostor.
(Zo["o]l.) A mocking bird.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., agent noun from mock (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who mocks. 2 A mockingbird. 3 (context archaic English) A deceiver; an impostor.
WordNet
n. someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision [syn: scoffer, flouter, jeerer]
long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds [syn: mockingbird, Mimus polyglotktos]
Wikipedia
The Mocker is a fictional comic book character by artist Steve Ditko.
Mocker or Mockers may refer to:
- Josef Mocker, Czech architect
- The Raven Mocker, a fictional evil being from Cherokee mythology
- The Mocker (comics), a comic book character
- The Mockers, a New Zealand pop band
- Los Mockers, a Uraguayan rock band
- Mocker Swallowtail butterfly ( Papilio dardanus)
- A 1960s offshoot of the Mods and Rockers that wore the clothing of both subcultures and were largely uninterested in the conflict. John Lennon and Ringo Starr of the Beatles were known to like both the rock and roll of the greasers in addition to the soul and psychedelic rock of the Mods.
Usage examples of "mocker".
The basher would find a reason to delay any citizen from entering the shop whenever a Mocker was inside.
His voice lacked the rough, commanding edge Limm had come to know as a boy in the Mockers, when Graves was first among the bashers.
He was unapologetic about his early past, simply admitting he had been involved in smuggling, extortion, and had killed more than one man on behalf of the Mockers of Krondor.
The laughter of Democritus may suggest that naive viewers are part of the world he mocks or that sophisticated viewers are mockers themselves as well as objects of mockery.
They acted in a provocative fashion, openly moving cargo into and out of the city, bribing officials and daring the Mockers to interfere with them.
The Mockers had been driven to ground, and the invaders, working for someone known only as the Crawler, had also suffered, as the Prince of Krondor had acted to restore order to his city.
Squire James, once Jimmy the Hand of the Mockers, had foiled that ruse, before vanishing into the night on a mission for the Prince.
Patience in one his age was rare outside the Mockers, but a rash thief was a dead thief.
Most boys his age were still working the streets in packs, urchins who provided distraction while other Mockers lifted goods from carts, or deflected attention from a fleeing thief.
His voice lacked the rough, commanding edge Limm had come to know as a boy in the Mockers, when Graves was first among the bashers.
The peace within the Mockers was imposed from the top down, and it would never be mistaken for friendship.
While a member of the Guild of Thieves, the Mockers, James had learned every trick of survival that harsh circumstance, opportunity, and keen native intelligence had presented to him.
There were snitches in the employ of the City Watch, but they were often paid by the Mockers to give false information, and anyone who was truly in their pay was likely to turn up floating in the bay.
If he had a writ from the Nightmaster of the Mockers, none in that ragged brotherhood would trouble him, and even those who were not part of the Guild of Thieves left him alone, as the protection of the Mockers was not something to be brushed aside lightly.
While still being on good terms with many individual Mockers, he knew the Guild itself had the death mark on him.