释义 |
jeerer|ˈdʒɪərə(r)| Forms: see jeer v.; also 6 girar. [f. jeer v. + -er1.] One who jeers or calls out in derision; a mocker, scoffer.
1553in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. xi. 28 All ar not gyrers and mockers. 1562Leigh Armorie (1597) A iv, Such girars nowe be, who seeming to contemne all thinges, become themselues a contempt to all men. 1569Foxe A. & M. (1583) 2105 Henry Smith..beyng now a foule gierer and a scornfull scorner of that religion which before he professed..strangled himselfe. 1637Jackson Treat. God's Forewarn. Wks. 1844 VI. 131 He..doth either jeer our Saviour or make him to be a jeerer of the sons of affliction. 1837Major Richardson Brit. Legion iii. (ed. 2) 61 The grumbler and the jeerer sat side by side upon the road. |