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Jeering

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jeer

1  [jeer]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely: Don't jeer unless you can do better.
–verb (used with object)
2. to shout derisively at; taunt.
3. to treat with scoffs or derision; mock.
4. to drive away by derisive shouts (fol. by out of, off, etc.): They jeered the speaker off the stage.
–noun
5. a jeering utterance; derisive or rude gibe.
Origin:
1555–65; orig. uncert.; cf. OE cēir clamor, akin to cēgan to call out

Related forms:
jeerer, noun
jeer⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. sneer; jest. See scoff 1 . 2, 3. deride, ridicule, flout, fleer.
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jeer   (jîr)   
v.   jeered, jeer·ing, jeers

v.   intr.
To speak or shout derisively; mock.
v.   tr.
To abuse vocally; taunt: jeered the speaker off the stage.
n.  A scoffing or taunting remark or shout.

[Origin unknown.]
jeer'er n., jeer'ing·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

jeer 
1553, gyr, "to deride, to mock," perhaps from Du. gieren "to cry or roar," or Ger. scheren "to plague, vex," lit. "to shear." OED finds the suggestion that it is an ironical use of cheer "plausible and phonetically feasible, ... but ... beyond existing evidence."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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