jeer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: jeer	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for jeer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jeer n showing your contempt by derision [syn: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing] v laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" Synonym(s): jeer, scoff, flout, barrack, gibe
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jeer \Jeer\, v. t. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jeer \Jeer\, n. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jeer \Jeer\, n. [Cf. {Gear}.] (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 capstan} (Naut.), an extra capstan usually placed between the foremast and mainmast.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jeer \Jeer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jeered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jeering}.] [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.] 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.