Definition of "scoff"

VVith ſcoffs and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene vi], page 100, column 1

'I believe you've killed that constable in the exercise of his duty, Sir; the man's dead,' said Lowe, sternly. / 'Another gloss on my text; why invade me like housebreakers?' said Dangerfield with a grim scoff.

1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, […]

There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […]

1852, The Dublin University Magazine, page 66

[T]he scoff of wither'd age and beardless youth […]

1782, William Cowper, “Hope”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.

1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W. Griffin, […]

Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […]

2016, Fearne Cotton, Cook Happy, Cook Healthy

The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68