Mockery is ridicule, or a poor imitation of something. Subject to mockery, make a mockery of it, open mockery.
Make a mockery of is the commonest phrase, and it means to reduce a serious thing to a joke by how badly it was done. The second sense is a travesty rather than mere teasing. Note mock beneath it, from an Old French verb.
1nounmockeryRidicule, or a poor imitation of something.
“His strange accent made him a target for mockery at his new school.”
mockery is ridicule.
Old French moquerie comes from moquer, to mock; the further origin is uncertain.
Medieval Greek
μωκός — mocker
Middle French
mocquerie
Anglo-Norman
mokerie
Middle English
mokkery
English, today
mockery
Built from
From Middle English mokkery, from Anglo-Norman mokerie, mokery and Middle French mocquerie, moquerie, from moquer, moker (“to mock”) + -erie (“-ery”), perhaps from Medieval Greek μωκός (“mocker”), perhaps from Arabic مَكْر (“scheme, plot”). Equivalent to mock + ery.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA