scoffer:

(plural: ‘scoffers‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)

‘to scoff’ (verb) = to make fun of others; to mock; to talk to or of others with disrespect; and to eat greedily

scoffers making fun of a new idea or policy

a person who makes fun of others;

a mocker;

a person who eats food quickly and greedily,

a scoffer munching off the cake greedily

e.g.

Casey is a scoffer of anything that’s new; he scoffs at anyone or anything that seems novel or different; he wants everything to be the same forever.

Tracey becomes a scoffer when it comes to pastries; she scoffs cake after cake until her mother chides her to behave.

There are scoffers in religion who scoffs at religious rituals or practices; there are political scoffers who talk ill of any proposal or policy without ever understanding it.

The climate change scoffers might get a big shock when the underground water levels fall low, natural animal life reduces to half its present population, and cyclones and twisters ruin coastal belts totally, but then, it’ll be too late to set things right!

For a news article in which we see this word being used to refer to people who eat eagerly, please click here, for a political article (Line 3; Para 3) that shows us how this word pops up in our daily reading, please click here and for an article that shows us how this word is found in the sense of mocking at others in the Bible, please click here & please, click here.