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Grammar : Verb
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Phonetic Transcription : dʒɪər

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Définition of jeer

Origin :
  • 1550s, gyr, "to deride, to mock," of uncertain origin; perhaps from Dutch gieren "to cry or roar," or German scheren "to plague, vex," literally "to shear." OED finds the suggestion that it is an ironical use of cheer "plausible and phonetically feasible, ... but ... beyond existing evidence." Related: Jeered; jeering.
  • verb heckle
Example sentences :
  • It was as if every drop of blood in the wood had found a voice to jeer him with.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • We passed four men, and their greeting was maddening in its jeer.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Were these the people, then, who were going to jeer at his picture, provided it were found again?
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
  • The girl's defiant attitude only incited the workmen to jeer the more.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • Mayhap, then, you'll come on deck and tell these merry men as much, for they do only jeer at me.
  • Extract from : « Standish of Standish » by Jane G. Austin
  • The chaps behind might cheer and jeer and cry, “Gee-up, Sarah!”
  • Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • As we approached the soldiers, they began to jeer at us in a most insolent manner.
  • Extract from : « Saint Bartholomew's Eve » by G. A. Henty
  • But he was not the kind of scarecrow they would have dared to jeer at openly.
  • Extract from : « The Dop Doctor » by Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
  • If you liked, I could go over to the fountain and begin to jeer at their women folk.
  • Extract from : « Columba » by Prosper Merimee
  • Furneaux did jeer, but it was at his colleague's phenomenal luck.
  • Extract from : « The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley » by Louis Tracy

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