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▪ I. jeering, vbl. n.|ˈdʒɪərɪŋ|
[f. as jeerer + -ing1.]
The action of the verb jeer; the utterance of derisive mockery; scoffing.
1561Bp. Cox Let. to Parker in Strype Parker ii. viii. (1711) 109 What rejoicing and ieering the Adversaries make. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. iv. i, Call you this ieering! I can play at this. 1724Ramsay Throw the Wood ii, Their jeering ga'es aft to my heart wi'a knell. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. ii. (1880) 27 These jeerings of the towns⁓folk reached his ears as he passed along the streets.
▪ II. jeering, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That jeers; scornfully mocking, derisively scoffing.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 258 b, Here is no want of any thing nowe, but of some gyering Gnato, which may lowt this Thraso out of hys paynted coat. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1812 Esteemed..As seelie ieering idiots are with Kings. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. ii, Such petulant, geering gamsters that can spare No..subject from their jest. 1762Lloyd Hare & Tort. Poems 37 Friend tortoise, quoth the jeering hare, Your burthen's more than you can bear. 1828Carlyle Misc., Goethe (1872) II. 198 Even in these trivial, jeering, withered, unbelieving days. |