英:['dʒɪərə]
美:['dʒɪrə]
英:['dʒɪərə]
美:['dʒɪrə]
verb
intransitive verb
to speak or cry out with derision or mockery
a jeering mob
transitive verb
to deride with mocking and insulting remarks or sounds : taunt
was jeered by the crowd when he tried to speak
noun
a mocking and insulting remark or sound : taunt
the jeers of the crowd
Verb and Noun origin unknown
The first known use of jeer was in 1561
jingle1 of 2verb
to make or cause to make a light clinking sound
coins jingled in their pockets
jingle2 of 2noun
a light clinking sound
a catchy repetition of sounds in a poem
a verse or song marked by catchy repetition
jimsonweednoun
a tall poisonous weed that is related to the potato and has bad-smelling leaves, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers, and a prickly fruit
jim-dandynoun
something very good
Jewrynoun
plural Jewries a district in which Jews lived : ghetto
the Jewish people
Jeremiahnoun
a prophetic book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see bible
jelly1 of 2noun
a food with a soft elastic consistency due usually to gelatin or pectinespecially: a fruit product made by boiling sugar and the juice of fruit
a substance resembling jelly
jelly2 of 2verb
jell sense 1
jellverb
to make or become jelly
to take shape : form
an idea jelled
Jehovahnoun
god sense 1
Jeffersonianadjective
of, relating to, or associated with Thomas Jeffersonespecially: of, relating to, or consistent with the political principles and ideas held by or associated with Thomas Jefferson
jeerverb
to laugh at or criticize someone in a loud and angry way
1 He tried to ignore the jeering crowd.
2 Starkad replied that he used in old days to chastise jeerers, and that the insolent had never insulted him unpunished.
3 ignored the jeers of the other team's fans and just focused on making her free throw shot
4 But a reader named Robert was definitely a jeerer.
5 Then Blackbeard stepped quietly forward and ordered eight of the jeerers to be strung up and flogged.
6 Such were “the vapourers,” and “the jeerers;” but these had not substance in them to live, and Jonson only cast on them a side-glance.
7 During those heated days, City Council meetings descended into chaos, with protesters jeering De León.
8 A scoffer by nature, a jeerer by temperament, a humbugger by education, the Parisian perpetually forces himself to accept nothing seriously, and to respect neither sex nor age nor glory.
9 The clip that Collins shared last week on X, formerly Twitter, shows a group of white men standing across from the demonstrator and jeering at her - with one making apelike movements and sounds.
10 In the second number is a full-page cut, in which Beecher is depicted as standing before a crowd of jeerers prior to being placed in the stocks, with the scarlet letter "A" upon his breast.
11 And therefore an impertinent jeerer makes the whole company seem ill-natured and abusive, as being pleased with and consenting to the scurrility of the jeer.
12 The remark didn’t go over well with Davidson; the comedian is said to have stopped his set mid-joke in order to locate the jeerer.
13 People called them the jeerers or sneerers, because they did not stick at anything.
14 What good will all my companions, fellow-jesters, jeerers, liars, drunkards, and all my wantons do me?
15 I've a great mind—I hear the jeerer snigger in his sleeve—but I repeat emphatically I have a great mind to come back.
16 The prisoner was jeered by an angry mob.
17 There are plague-spots, there are besotted critical jeerers at the wayside with an aggressive sense of superiority to all unlike themselves; there are half-grown lads and girls boisterously foul-mouthed.
18 The crowd jeered him when he struck out.
19 ‘Victory over such unkind jeerers would be sweet,’ said Lady Caroline.
20 Anyone who would rather skip that might as well take his place among the jeerers.