jeer Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun showing your contempt by derision
    scoffing; scoff; jeering; mockery.
  2. verb laugh at with contempt and derision
    barrack; gibe; scoff; flout.
    • The crowd jeered at the speaker

WordNet

Jeer noun
Etymology
Cf. Gear.
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) (a) A gear; a tackle. (b) pl. An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.
Jeer intransitive verb
Etymology
Perh. a corrup. of cheer to salute with cheers, taken in an ironical sense; or more prob. fr. D. gekscheren to jeer, lit., to shear the fool; gek a fool (see 1st Geck) + scheren to shear. See Shear, v.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Jeered ; present participle & verbal noun Jeering
Definitions
  1. To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker.
    But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer. Spenser.
    Syn. -- To sneer; scoff; flout; gibe; mock.
Jeer transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.
    And if we can not jeer them, we jeer ourselves. B. Jonson.
Jeer noun
Definitions
  1. A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.
    Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears. Swift.

Webster 1913