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cocking a snook (at)phrasealso cocking snooks (at)present participle of cock a snook (at)British to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughterPlayers on the winning side couldn't resist cocking a snook at the highly-touted opposing team's pitiful performance. deriding, gibing(or jibing), jeering, laughing (at), mocking, ridiculing, scouting, shooting down, skewering scoffing (at), scorning, sneering (at)bad-mouthing, belittling, decrying, disparaging, pooh-poohing(also poohing), putting downchaffing, jiving, joshing, kidding, quizzing, rallying, razzing, ribbing, riding, teasing, tweaking, twittingbaiting, barracking(chiefly British), bugging, catcalling, harassing, harrying, hassling, heckling, needling, pestering, ragging, targeting, taunting, tormentingaping, burlesquing, caricaturing, imitating, lampooning, mimicking, parodying, parroting, pillorying, satirizing, taking off (on), travestying making fun of, making sport of, poking fun at, ragging on applauding, approving, commending, endorsing(also indorsing), sanctioning |