n.
  - contempt or disdain expressed openly.
 - archaic a statement or gesture showing contempt.
 
v.
  - express scorn for.
 - reject in a contemptuous way.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - scorner n.
  - scornful adj.
  - scornfully adv.
  - scornfulness n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: shortening of OFr. escarn (n.), escharnir (v.), of Gmc origin.