mock
nounverbadjectivecommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//mɒk//
- United States//mɑk//
An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
noun
- 1
An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
Is tortured thirst itself too sweet a cup? Gall, and more bitter mocks, shall make it up.
- 2
Mockery; the act of mocking.
Fooles make a mocke at ſinne: but among the righteous there is fauour.
Thus says my king; an if your father's highness Do not, in grant of all demands at large, Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty, He'll call you to so hot an answer of it
- 3
A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object, as used in unit testing.
You can, if you must, create a mock that derives from a concrete class. The problem is that the resulting class represents a mix of production and mocked behavior, a beast referred to as a partial mock.
Mocks replace the objects with which your methods under test collaborate, thus offering a layer of isolation.
- 4
Variant of mock examinationEllipsis of mock examination.
He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.
Etymology
From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).
verb
- 1
To mimic, to simulate.
To see the life as lively mocked as ever / Still sleep mocked death.
Mocking marriage with a dame of France.
- 2
rareTo create an artistic representation of.
[I]ts sculptor well those passions read / Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: […]
- 3
To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
And it came to paſſe at noone, that Eliiah mocked them, and ſaide, Crie aloud: for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is purſuing, or hee is in a iourney, or peraduenture he ſleepeth, and muſt be awaked.
Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
- 4
To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
The wind is mocking my efforts to light a fire!
[object Object]
"It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."
And Delilah ſaid vnto Samſon, hitherto thou haſt mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mighteſt be bound.
- 5
To create a mockup or prototype of.
They can also mock other integration points such as backend, database, or any other external resource.
adjective
- 1
Imitation, not genuine; fake.
mock leather
mock trial
mock turtle-soup
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
Forms
- plural
- mocks
- past tense
- mocked
- past participle
- mocked
- present participle
- mocking
- third person singular
- mocks