different between sockful vs mockful

English

sock +? -ful

sockful (plural sockfuls or socksful)

As much as a sock will hold.
Distrusting banks, the eccentric old man kept a sockful of silver coins under his mattress.

mock +? -ful

mockful (comparative more mockful, superlative most mockful)

(obsolete) mocking
- a 1868, Robert Buchanan, Edburga, in Tragic Dramas from Scottish History, volume 2, 1868
  Why dost thou phrase it thus / With that meek air of mockful ceremony? / Dost thou mistrust my love?
- 1847, William Thom, Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-loom Weaver (page 76)
  For these are but mockful and treacherous things — / The thorns that "crackle" to sharpen their stings.

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