MOCKER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: mocker

Meaning:

Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds

Synonyms:

Mimus polyglotktos; mocker; mockingbird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mocker" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Holonyms ("mocker" is a member of...):

genus Mimus; Mimus (type genus of the family Mimidae: mockingbirds)

Meaning:

Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision

Synonyms:

flouter; jeerer; mocker; scoffer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mocker" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Derivation:

mock (treat with contempt)

mock (imitate with mockery and derision)