heckle

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  1. transitive verb To try to embarrass and annoy (someone speaking or performing in public) by questions, gibes, or objections; badger.
  2. transitive verb To comb (flax or hemp) with a hatchel.

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  • And by all means, feel free to comment, suggest, heckle or enquire into anything PhD or AA related and I'll be more than willing to put in my two cents / pence worth (they're about the same value now, anyway;) —  Archinect.com Feed
  • "There's nothing wrong with heckling, and a witty heckle is always welcome, but at the same time a lot of what we hear in there is offensive stuff," Kormos said.
  • And you can see the most popular tags on NYC. com by visiting This rowdy stand-up comedy show encourages the audience to heckle, blurring the lines between traditional stand-up comedy and improvisation. —  NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art
  • The back story: Tucked into the same crowded strip mall that features Esperanza's and Old Neighborhood Grill, Joe's isn't much to look at, and the counter service can be unnerving (Joe has a tendency to heckle - especially if, like us, you order too much food). —  Home Page | DFW.com
  • IBC Root Beer to hoot, heckle, point and laugh until election day. —  Iowa Blogs - News
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heckle:   heckled
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English hekelen, to comb with a hatchel, from hekel, hatchel, from Middle Dutch; see keg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also, with different vowel, hackle, q. v., and assibilated hetchel, hatchel, q. v.; from Middle English hekele, hechele, from Dutch hekel = Middle High German hachel, hechel, German hechel = Swedish häckla = Danish hegle, a heckle; connected with and nearly a diminutive of Dutch haak = Middle High German hake, German hake, haken = Swedish hake = Danish hage = English dial. hake, a hook: see hake, hake, hatch, heck, and hook.
  2. Also, with different vowel, hackle, q. v., and assibilated hetchel, early modern English heckell, hetchyll; from the noun.
 

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