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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JEER, v.i. To utter severe, sarcastic reflections; to scoff; to deride; to flout; to make a mock of; as, to jeer at one in sport.
JEER, v.t. To treat with scoffs or derision.
JEER, n. Railing language; scoff; taunt; biting jest; flout; jibe; mockery; derision; ridicule with scorn.
Midas exposed to all their jeers,
Had lost his art, and kept his ears.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: showing your contempt by derision [syn: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing] v
1: laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" [syn: jeer, scoff, flout, barrack, gibe]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1561 intransitive verb to speak or cry out with derision or mockery transitive verb to deride with jeers ; taunt Synonyms: see scoff • jeerer noun • jeeringly adverb II. noun Date: 1625 a jeering remark or sound ; taunt

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 intr. (usu. foll. by at) scoff derisively. 2 tr. scoff at; deride. --n. a scoff or taunt. Derivatives: jeeringly adv. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(jeers, jeering, jeered) 1. To jeer at someone means to say or shout rude and insulting things to them to show that you do not like or respect them. Marchers jeered at white passers-by, but there was no violence, nor any arrests... Demonstrators have jeered the mayor as he arrived for a week long visit... I didn't come here today to jeer: I want to give advice. ...mobs of jeering bystanders. VERB: V at n, V n, V, V-ing, also V with quote • jeering There was constant jeering and interruption from the floor. 2. Jeers are rude and insulting things that people shout to show they do not like or respect someone. ...the heckling and jeers of his audience. N-COUNT: usu pl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Sneer, scoff, flout, mock, gibe, fleer, rail. II. v. a. Flout, taunt, deride, ridicule, mock, gibe, scoff, spurn, despise, contemn, chaff at, sneer at, jeer at, rail at, gibe at, crook the finger at. III. n. Sneer, scoff, taunt, gibe, biting jest, flout.

Moby Thesaurus

Parthian shot, affront, aspersion, atrocity, back answer, barrack, boo, brickbat, bullyrag, call names, catcall, caustic remark, chaff, comeback, contempt, contumely, crack, cut, cut at, cutting remark, decry, deride, derision, despite, dig, dig at, dishonor, disoblige, dump, dump on, enormity, fleer, fleer at, flout, flouting, foolery, gibe, gibe at, gibing retort, gird, give offense to, hiss, hoot, humiliate, humiliation, hurl a brickbat, indignity, injury, insult, jab, jab at, jape, jeer at, jeering, jest, jibe, jibe at, knock, leg-pull, make fun of, mock, mockery, obloquy, offend, offense, outrage, parting shot, pooh, pooh-pooh, put down, put-down, put-on, quip, rag, rail at, rally, rank out, revile, ridicule, roast, rude reproach, scoff, scoff at, scout, scurrility, short answer, slam, slap, slap at, sneer, sneer at, swipe, taunt, treat with indignity, twit, uncomplimentary remark, verbal thrust