Jeer
[dʒɪə] or [dʒɪr]
Definition
(noun.) showing your contempt by derision.
(verb.) laugh at with contempt and derision; 'The crowd jeered at the speaker'.
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Definition
(n.) A gear; a tackle.
(n.) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.
(v.) To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker.
(v. t.) To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.
(n.) A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.
Checked by Justin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Sneer, scoff, flout, mock, gibe, fleer, rail, turn up the nose.
v. a. Flout, taunt, deride, ridicule, mock, scoff, spurn, despise, contemn, chaff at, sneer at, jeer at, rail at, POKE FUN AT, turn up the nose at.
n. Sneer, scoff, taunt, gibe, biting jest, flout.
Checker: Terrance
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sneer, taunt, scoff, deride, scout, flout, mock, rally, banter
ANT:Flatter, annulate, fawn, cringe, compliment, eulogize
Edited by Ervin
Definition
v.t. to make sport of: to treat with derision.—v.i. to scoff: to deride: to make a mock of.—n. a railing remark: biting jest: mockery.—n. Jeer′er a scoffer or mocker.—adv. Jeer′ingly.
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Examples
- There was no little fellow but had his jeer and joke at Dobbin; and he bore everything quite patiently, and was entirely dumb and miserable. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The farmer grew indignant, and protested that McCormick would ruin all his wheat, and the laborers began to jeer and joke at the machine’s expense. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She only ran up the road, lest she should go back and jeer in the faces of the two she had left behind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- People were silent when she passed, impressed, roused, wanting to jeer, yet for some reason silenced. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He smelt of death, Robert Jordan jeered. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Old Figs grew to be a name of kindness and endearment; and the sneak of an usher jeered at him no longer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It will be bad for him when men he has injured, and at whom he has jeered, are thinking of getting hanged. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The small crew of spectators jeered him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What we loosely call syndicalism is a tendency that no statesman can overlook to-day without earning the jeers of his children. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Then he directed a look, half exasperated and half jeering, at his wife. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The laugh of the shrill, triumphant female sounded from Hermione, jeering him as if he were a neuter. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Presently the stout men of Alkmaar, cheering and jeering, watched the Spaniards breaking camp. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I don't care for hard names,' interrupted Monks with a jeering laugh. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- At this rate, Maurice, we can hold the island for a year, said the Demarch, with a jeering laugh; it's child's play compared with yesterday. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She turned to Birkin with a quick, almost jeering: 'Good-bye,' and she was opening the door before he had time to do it for her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The two women were jeering at him, jeering him into nothingness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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