Scoff
Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin.
wiktionary
From Middle English scof/ skof, of Scandinavian origin. Compare Old Norse skaup, Danish skuffelse(noun)/ skuffe(verb) and Old High German scoph.
A variant, attested since the mid 19th century, of scaff, of uncertain origin. [1] [2] Compare scarf(“eat quickly”).
etymonline
scoff (v.)
mid-14c., "jest, make light of something;" mid-15c., "make fun of, mock," from the noun meaning "contemptuous ridicule" (c. 1300), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skaup, skop "mockery, ridicule," Middle Danish skof "jest, mockery;" perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, *skuf- (source also of Old English scop "poet," Old High German scoph "fiction, sport, jest, derision"), from PIE *skeubh- "to shove" (see shove (v.)).
