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jeered

jeered is the simple past and past participle of jeer.

Meaning of jeer

Verb

jeer (third-person singular simple present jeers, present participle jeering, simple past and past participle jeered)

  1. (intransitive) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
    • But when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, / And passe the bonds of modest merimake, / Her dalliance he despisd, and follies did forsake.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21
  2. (archaic, transitive) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.
    • And if we cannot jeer them, we jeer ourselves.1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene...

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What is jeered the simple past and past participle of?
Jeered is the simple past and past participle of jeer.

Words near jeered in the dictionary

  1. jeer capstan
  2. jeer capstans
  3. jeera
  4. Jeeralang
  5. Jeeralang Junction
  6. jeered
  7. jeerer
  8. jeerers
  9. jeerest
  10. jeereth
  11. jeering

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