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Scoff or SCOFF may refer to: Scoff, a colloquial term for the act of eating, usually quickly "Scoff" a song by Nirvana on their album Bleach; Scoff, a colloquial term for fellatio; SCOFF questionnaire, a questionnaire for screening eating disorders; Scoff, to express disgust or dismay at someone's bad behaviour or something else dismaying
[1] [2] The original SCOFF questionnaire was devised for use in the United Kingdom, thus the original acronym needs to be adjusted for users in the United States and Canada. The "S" in SCOFF stands for "Sick" which in British English means specifically to vomit. In American English and Canadian English it is synonymous with "ill".
"Scofflaw" was the winning entry of a nationwide competition to create a new word for "the lawless drinker," with a prize of $200 in gold, sponsored by Delcevare King, a banker and enthusiastic supporter of Prohibition, in 1923. [1]
It is a shortening of the idiom taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock, tease, joke, ridicule, or scoff. [2] Extracting the urine, Taking the Mickey (Mickey Bliss, Cockney rhyming slang), taking the Mick or taking the Michael are additional terms for making fun of someone. These terms are most often used in the United ...
Named "Scoff-ee Cups," the cups will be made from wafer cookies wrapped in sugar paper and lined with. Now you can have your coffee, and eat the cup, too. Fast food chain KFC will debut an edible ...
A scop (/ ʃ ɒ p / [1] or / s k ɒ p / [2]) was a poet as represented in Old English poetry.The scop is the Old English counterpart of the Old Norse skald, with the important difference that "skald" was applied to historical persons, and scop is used, for the most part, to designate oral poets within Old English literature.
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