Jeer

Quick meaning: Jeer is a noun meaning A mocking remark or reflection.

Meaning

A mocking remark or reflection.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, with at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
2. (transitive, archaic) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.
3. (nautical) A gear; a tackle.
4. (nautical, in the plural) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.

Example Sentences

And if we cannot jeer them, we jeer ourselves.

But when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, / And passe the bonds of modest merimake, / Her dalliance he despisd, and follies did forsake.

At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.

1711, Jonathan Swift, The Fable of Midas, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5, Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears.

Word Forms

• jeers
• jeering
• jeered

Synonyms for jeer

Depending on context, synonyms include scoff, taunt, flout, jibe, mockery, sneer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mockery, scoff, scoffing, flout, barrack, gibe.

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