In British slang, a scoffer is someone who eats voraciously or in large quantities — a glutton. In the more general standard English sense, a scoffer is someone who mocks or scoffs at others. Both senses are in use; the eating sense is the more distinctly slangy British usage.
He was a legendary scoffer at work — never left a crumb from a team lunch.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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One who scoffs or mocks.
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(UK, slang) One who eats a large amount.
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