jeer

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Parthian jeer, and, as he walks dejectedly away, the agent says -- "Ah, it's a pity you offended that fellow.

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  1. intransitive verb To speak or shout derisively; mock.
  2. transitive verb To abuse vocally; taunt: jeered the speaker off the stage.
  3. noun A scoffing or taunting remark or shout.

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  • “A jeer, a sneer, a challenge; rubbing salt in the wound, aggravating the offense He has a pretty turn of rhetoric,” said Ramses, who had taken up the newspaper. —  52316_ApeWhoGuardsTheBalance
  • CHEER AND JEER-If you know of someone or something you would like to nominate for a cheer or a jeer, send the information to Cheers and Jeers, —  ClearysNoteBook
  • Two cheers and a jeer: Most Americans like having a leader whom foreigners adore. —  BrothersJudd Blog
  • Have a cheer or a jeer for someone or something in the community?
  • Television viewers saw for themselves - most notoriously at a press conference on Hanson's immigration policy - journalists literally jostling each other for a chance to jeer, heckle and shout at her. —  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
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taunt ·  gibe ·  catcall ·  derision ·  sneer ·  hoot ·  guffaw ·  mockery ·  execration ·  scoff ·  banter ·  jibe

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jeer:   jeers
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Early modern English also jear, geare; prob. from Middle Dutch scheeren, scheren, jest, jeer, trifle, a use of the verb due to phrases like den sot scheeren or scheeren den sot, play the fool, den gheck scheeren, also den gheck spelen, play the fool (cf. gheckscherer, a fool); gekscheeren, now spelled gekscheren, Low German gekkscheren (with equivalent D., and Low German scheren, jeer, banter, plague, tease), literally ‘shear the fool’ (cf. German den geck stechen, banter, tease, literally ‘pierce the fool,’ i. e. his skull): D. gek, Middle Dutch gheck = German geck, later English geck, a fool (see geck), Middle Dutch sot = English sot, orig. a fool (see sot); Dutch scheren, Middle Dutch scheeren, scheren = German scheren = English shear. For shearing as a mark of contempt or disgrace, cf. shaveling, and Anglo-Saxon homola, a shaveling (under hamble, q. v.). For the change of sh to j, cf. jeltron for sheltron; it may be due in part, perhaps, to association with jest, jibe, joke, etc.
  2. from jeer, v.
  3. Also jear; origin obscure.
 

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