different between slap vs mock

English

Etymology

From Middle English slappen, of uncertain origin, possibly imitative. Compare Low German Slappe (“slap”), whence also German Schlappe (“defeat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Noun

slap (countable and uncountable, plural slaps)

1. (countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
2. (countable) The sound of such a blow.
3. (slang, uncountable) Makeup; cosmetics.

Usage notes

Especially used of blows to the face (aggressive), buttocks, and hand, frequently as a sign of reproach. Conversely, used of friendly strikes to the back, as a sign of camaraderie.

Hyponyms

• cuff

Derived terms

• bitch-slap
• dickslap
• pimp-slap
• slap and tickle
• slap in the face

Translations

Verb

slap (third-person singular simple present slaps, present participle slapping, simple past and past participle slapped)

1. (transitive) To give a slap to.

   She slapped him in response to the insult.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     Mrs. Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol.

2. (transitive) To cause something to strike soundly.

   He slapped the reins against the horse's back.

3. (intransitive) To strike soundly against something.

   The rain slapped against the window-panes.

4. (intransitive, slang) To be excellent.

   The band's new single slaps.

   • 2019, "Glass Battles", PT Music Watch, Issue 1 (2019), page 35:

     There are some cinematic elements, but at the end of the day, the album fucking slaps.

   • 2019, Gloria Perez, "Your Things", Your Mag, April 2019, page 74:

     Also I will never get tired of the song "Motion Sickness" by Phoebe Bridgers. Shit slaps.

   • 2019, Elly Watson, "The Great 2019 Debate", DIY, November 2019, page 59:

     2016's 'Girls Like Me' still slaps to this day.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:slap.
5. (transitive) To place, to put carelessly.

   We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall.

   • 2018 "The Secret Ceramics Room of Secrets", Bob's Burgers

     Louise Belcher: "On Monday there was supposed to be some big schoolboard inspection or something, so instead of cleaning the place up, what does the principal do? He panics. He and the janitor and the janitor's brother slap a wall where the door used to be."
     Gene Belcher: "Wall slap."

6. (transitive, informal, figuratively) To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone).

   I was slapped with a parking fine.

7. (transitive, informal) To play slap bass on (an instrument).

Hyponyms

• cuff

Derived terms

• slapper
• slap leather
• slap together
• slap-up

Translations

Adverb

slap (not comparable)

1. Exactly, precisely

   He tossed the file down slap in the middle of the table.

   • 1864, Tony Pastor, ?John F. Poole, Tony Pastor's Complete Budget of Comic Songs (page 63)

     They called the tom-cat to the trap, / Who molrowed as he smelt at the door, O— / Opened his mouth and swallowed him slap, / All the while most profanely he swore, O!

Synonyms

• just, right, slap bang, smack dab; see also Thesaurus:exactly

Translations

Anagrams

• ALPs, APLS, APLs, ASPL, Alps, PALS, PALs, PLAs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, alps, laps, pals, salp

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ap

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German slap

Adjective

slap

1. loose
2. limp
3. slack
4. weak (muscles)
5. flaccid
6. lax

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

slap

1. past tense of slippe

References

• “slap” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slap. Cognate with German schlaff and schlapp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?p/
• Hyphenation: slap
• Rhymes: -?p

Adjective

slap (comparative slapper, superlative slapst)

1. slack
2. weak

Inflection

Derived terms

• slapheid
• slapjanus
• slappeling
• slapperik
• slapte
• verslappen

Anagrams

• plas

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sl?p. Compare Old English sl?p, Old High German sl?f.

Noun

sl?p m

1. sleep

Declension

Scots

Noun

slap (plural slaps)

1. A gap in a fence.
2. A narrow cleft between hills.

Verb

slap

1. (transitive) To break an opening in.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *solp?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slâ?p/

Noun

sl?p m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (geology) waterfall

Declension

References

• “slap” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *solp?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slá?p/

Noun

sl?p m inan

1. (geology) waterfall

Inflection

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?lap/, [es?lap]

Noun

slap m (plural slaps)

1. (Peru) flip-flop, thong (Australia), jandal (New Zealand)

   Synonyms: bamba, chancla, (Venezuela) chola, (Argentina) ojota, (Peru) sayonara

English

Alternative forms

• mocque (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijan?, *m?han? (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?g-, *m?k- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

mock (plural mocks)

1. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Crashaw to this entry?)

2. Mockery, the act of mocking.
3. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.

   He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.

4. (software engineering) A mockup or prototype.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mock (third-person singular simple present mocks, present participle mocking, simple past and past participle mocked)

1. To mimic, to simulate.
2. (rare) To create an artistic representation of.
3. To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

4. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene III:

     "It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."

   • 1765, Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text, page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello):

     ‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.

   • 1812, The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature, page 190:

     The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.

5. (software engineering, transitive) To create a mockup or prototype of.

   What's the best way to mock a database layer?

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:mock
• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Derived terms

• mock out
• much-mocked
• mockworthy

Translations

See also

• jeer

Adjective

mock (not comparable)

1. Imitation, not genuine; fake.
   • 1776, United States Declaration of Independence

     For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

Translations

Anagrams

• KCMO

Middle English

Noun

mock

1. Alternative form of muk