The crowd continued to jeer.
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Jeer
//d͡ʒɪə//
Synonyms for "jeer" (168 found)
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Related words (84)
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12 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
6 entriesetymologically related_to
4 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
14 entriesTranslations
92 translations across 32 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- τωθασμός noun (mocking remark)
- σκώπτω verb (to scoff or mock)
- χλευάζω verb (to scoff or mock)
Belarusian
1 entries- здзек noun (mocking remark)
Bulgarian
3 entries- подигравка noun (mocking remark)
- надсмивам се verb (to scoff or mock)
- подигравам се verb (to scoff or mock)
Catalan
4 entries- burleria noun (mocking remark)
- escarnir verb (to scoff or mock)
- fer befa verb (to scoff or mock)
- fotre's (d'algú) verb (to scoff or mock)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 嘲弄 verb (to scoff or mock)
- 嘲笑 verb (to scoff or mock)
Czech
2 entries- posměšek noun (mocking remark)
- posmívat se verb (to scoff or mock)
Dutch
1 entries- spotten verb (to scoff or mock)
Esperanto
2 entries- moki verb (to scoff or mock)
- ŝerci verb (to scoff or mock)
Finnish
4 entries- pilkka noun (mocking remark)
- taljasto noun (nautical: assemblage for hoisting yards)
- ilkkua verb (to scoff or mock)
- pilkata verb (to scoff or mock)
French
4 entries- moquerie noun (mocking remark)
- raillerie noun (mocking remark)
- moquer verb (to scoff or mock)
- railler verb (to scoff or mock)
Georgian
4 entries- გამასხარავება noun (mocking remark)
- დაცინვა noun (mocking remark)
- მასხრად აგდება noun (mocking remark)
- გამასხარავება verb (to scoff or mock)
German
3 entries- Fall noun (gear; tackle)
- Spott noun (mocking remark)
- spotten verb (to scoff or mock)
Ingrian
1 entries- pilkka noun (mocking remark)
Interlingua
3 entries- burla noun (mocking remark)
- crito de derision noun (mocking remark)
- derider verb (to scoff or mock)
Italian
4 entries- beffa noun (mocking remark)
- burla noun (mocking remark)
- cavo noun (gear; tackle)
- drizza noun (gear; tackle)
Japanese
3 entries- 冷やかす verb (to scoff or mock)
- 嘲る verb (to scoff or mock)
- 野次る verb (to scoff or mock)
Latin
1 entries- cavillor verb (to scoff or mock)
Latvian
1 entries- ņirgāties verb (to scoff or mock)
Māori
4 entries- pehapehatū verb (to scoff or mock)
- pepehatū verb (to scoff or mock)
- taunu verb (to scoff or mock)
- whakatea verb (to scoff or mock)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- لطیفه noun (mocking remark)
Polish
2 entries- kpić verb (to scoff or mock)
- wyśmiewać verb (to scoff or mock)
Portuguese
4 entries- escárnio noun (mocking remark)
- zombaria noun (mocking remark)
- escarnecer verb (to scoff or mock)
- ridicularizar verb (to scoff or mock)
Russian
4 entries- глумле́ние noun (mocking remark)
- насме́шка noun (mocking remark)
- pf verb (to scoff or mock)
- вы́смеять verb (to scoff or mock)
Scots
1 entries- afftak noun (mocking remark)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mag verb (to scoff or mock)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- poruga noun (mocking remark)
- rugati se verb (to scoff or mock)
Spanish
3 entries- burlería noun (mocking remark)
- abuchear verb (to scoff or mock)
- burlarse verb (to scoff or mock)
Swedish
4 entries- glåpord noun (mocking remark)
- okvädingsord noun (mocking remark)
- häckla verb (to scoff or mock)
- pika verb (to scoff or mock)
Tagalog
1 entries- atsoy noun (mocking remark)
Vietnamese
1 entries- chế giễu verb (to scoff or mock)
Volapük
2 entries- kof noun (mocking remark)
- kofön verb (to scoff or mock)
Walloon
2 entries- glawe noun (mocking remark)
- lawe noun (mocking remark)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path — he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off.
Source: tatoeba (6203107)
As she was doing this, they said to her:— "Cinderella, would you not be glad to go to the ball?" "Young ladies," she said, "you only jeer at me; it is not for such as I am to go there." "You are right," they replied; "people would laugh to see a Cinderwench at a ball."
Source: tatoeba (6211653)
"Around, from far and near, / the Trojans throng, and vie the captive youth to jeer."
Source: tatoeba (6805082)
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