Meaning

A mocking remark or reflection..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

And if we cannot jeer them, we jeer ourselves.

In the nineteenth century, 1811 to be exact, the jeers were unrove after the yard was slung, the weight of the yard being borne by chain slings. The jeers used then were a treble block lashed to the mast head through a hole in the center of the top

Word Forms

• jeers
• jeering
• jeered

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