Lexicographical Neighbors of Skoffing
Literary usage of Skoffing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... he, like a skoffing fellow, pointed to a bush of nettles : I, not willing to
be satisfied by signes, asked him what he meant thereby ? ..."
2. History of Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, Charles Whibley (1899)
"... gayne and filthy lucre : to the end, that by some skoffing cavil!, hee might
put by and doe ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine (1876)
"... Wright) Lad ' delivered slanderous and skoffing speeches touching his late
occasion at sea,' to which the justices reply that they had examined into it, ..."
4. Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Anne: Illustrations of Local by Alexander Henry Abercromby Hamilton (1878)
"... Wright) had " delivered slanderous and skoffing speeches touching his late
occasion at sea," to which the justices reply that they had examined into it, ..."
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