making fun of someone or something in a mean way, or imitating them to ridicule them.
From Old French 'moquer' (to deceive), possibly from Germanic roots. Originally meant to 'make a fool of' and evolved into the sense of imitating mockingly.
Mockingbirds were named because they 'mock' or imitate the calls of other birds so perfectly—the word works the same way whether you're imitating a person or an animal!
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