mocking

/ˈmäk/

Middle English, from moker

verb

  1. to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride

  2. to disappoint the hopes of

  3. defy, challenge

he has been mocked as a mama's boy

ridicule deride mock taunt mean to make an object of laughter of. ridicule implies a deliberate often malicious belittling. deride suggests contemptuous and often bitter ridicule.

noun

  1. action or speech in which one mocks or makes fun of oneself : mockery of oneself

Before he retired from baseball in 1954, Mr. Garagiola was acquiring a reputation as a popular after-dinner speaker in his native St. Louis, with an endearing quality of self-mockery.