Definition of jeer Jeer

/ʤɪˈɹ/ - [jir] - jeer

We found 15 definitions of jeer from 6 different sources.

What does jeer mean?

Noun Plural: jeers
jeer - showing your contempt by derision
		jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing
		derision the act of deriding or treating with contempt
Verb jeers, jeering, jeered
jeer - laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"
		scoff, flout, barrack, gibe
		twit, taunt, tantalize, razz, tantalise, cod, bait, rally, rag, tease, ride attack with dogs or set dogs upon

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jeer (Noun)
A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.
jeer (Noun)
A gear; a tackle.
jeer (Noun)
An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
jeer (Verb)
To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
jeer (Verb)
To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt; to flout.

jeer (n.)
A gear; a tackle.
jeer (n.)
An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.
jeer (v.)
To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker.
jeer (v. t.)
To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.
jeer (n.)
A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.

jeer
jēr, v.t. to make sport of: to treat with derision.—v.i. to scoff: to deride: to make a mock of.—n. a railing remark: biting jest: mockery.—n. Jeer′er, a scoffer or mocker.—adv. Jeer′ingly. [Acc. to Skeat, from the Dut. phrase den gek scheeren, lit. 'to shear the fool,' to mock, the words gek scheeren (now scheren) being corr. into jeer.]

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