scoffer

Other forms of scoffer

plural

scoffers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scoffer

What does scoffer mean?

scoffer means "someone who eats food rapidly and greedily". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scoffer?

scoffer has 2 syllables: scof-fer. The stress falls on "scof".

What is another word for scoffer?

Close synonyms include gorger, flouter, mocker, jeerer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scoffer a common word?

scoffer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.