Lexicographical Neighbors of Skoffs
Literary usage of Skoffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"And you can hear Vespasian rioting with his friends when Holland writes: given
exceedingly hee was to skoffs, and those so skurrile and filthy, ..."
2. History of Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, Charles Whibley (1899)
"For given exceedingly hee was to skoffs, and those so skurrile and filthy, that
he could not so much as forbeare words of ..."
3. Men, Mines and Animals in South Africa by Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1897)
"We have done twenty-five miles from Silika in three " skoffs,"* which is excellent
trekking. The river is very low, but the water is clear. ..."
4. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"Swed. dial. staff-, as in skoffs-ord, n. pi., words of abuse, skoff-stra, to
abuse ; O. Fries. schof. a scoff ; Icel. ..."
5. Odds and Ends, Pictures of Town, and Mirth and Metre by Andrew Wynter, Frank Edward Smedley, Edmund Hodgson Yates (1855)
"... and gets them up in proper names, and in geography, no easy matter for the
common Saxon tongue, considering that it has to spit out " skoffs" and ..."
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