JEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jeer mean? 

• JEER (noun)
  The noun JEER has 1 sense:

1. showing your contempt by derision

  Familiarity information: JEER used as a noun is very rare.

• JEER (verb)
  The verb JEER has 1 sense:

1. laugh at with contempt and derision

  Familiarity information: JEER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JEER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing your contempt by derision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

jeer; jeering; mockery; scoff; scoffing

Hypernyms ("jeer" is a kind of...):

derision (contemptuous laughter)

Derivation:

jeer (laugh at with contempt and derision)

• JEER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jeer    ... he / she / it jeers   
Past simple: jeered   
Past participle: jeered   
-ing form: jeering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Laugh at with contempt and derision

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

barrack; flout; gibe; jeer; scoff

Context example:

The crowd jeered at the speaker

Hypernyms (to "jeer" is one way to...):

bait; cod; rag; rally; razz; ride; tantalise; tantalize; taunt; tease; twit (harass with persistent criticism or carping)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

jeer (showing your contempt by derision)

jeerer (someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision)

jeering (showing your contempt by derision)

 Context examples 

"It's a lady's voice, a fine lady's," Mr. Higginbotham, who had called him, jeered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Has he jeered at you than?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jeers and scornful laughter followed him out of the igloo, but his jaw was set and he went his way, looking neither to right nor left.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Jeers, laughter, and 'Tell us another!' from the back.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then everybody laughed and jeered at her; and she was so abashed, that she wished herself a thousand feet deep in the earth.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Holmes’s expression was as impassive as ever under the jeers of his antagonist, but his clenched hands betrayed his acute annoyance.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All the life about him—the odors of stale vegetables and soapsuds, the slatternly form of his sister, and the jeering face of Mr. Higginbotham—was a dream.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well, friend, we are all three men of Hampshire, and not lightly to be jeered at.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we started there broke from the thick silent woods behind us a sudden great ululation of the ape-men, which may have been a cheer of triumph at our departure or a jeer of contempt at our flight.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)