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Word Meanings - JIBE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe. (more info) Dan. gibbe, D. gijpen, v. i., and dial. Sw. gippa to jerk. Cf. Jib,

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  • RIDICULER
    One who ridicules.
  • CONTEMNER
    One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
  • SCOUT
    A swift sailing boat. So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers. Pepys.
  • SNEER
    1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn.
  • DERIDER
    One who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.
  • SCOFFERY
    The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.
  • SNEERINGLY
    In a sneering manner.
  • SCOFFINGLY
    In a scoffing manner. Broome.
  • CONTEMN
    To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden. Syn. -- To despise; scorn; disdain; spurn;
  • DERIDE
    To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at. And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him. Luke xvi. 14. Sport that wrinkled Care derides. And Laughter holding both his sides. Milton. Syn.
  • SCOFF
    1. Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. Shak. 2. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision. The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.
  • CONTEMNINGLY
    Contemptuously.
  • SCOFFER
    One who scoffs. 2 Pet. iii. 3.
  • SNEERER
    One who sneers.
  • RIDICULE
    1. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe. 2.
  • SNEERFUL
    Given to sneering.
  • ESCOUT
    See HAYWARD
  • BOY SCOUT
    Orig., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest
  • TRACKSCOUT
    See TRACKSCHUYT
  • OUTSCOUT
    To overpower by disdain; to outface. Marston.

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