Word Meanings - JEERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mocking; scoffing. -- n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JEERING)

• Banter
• Badinage
• chaff
• mockery
• derision
• ridicule
• irony
• jeering
• raillery
• Scurrility
• Buffoonery
• abuse

Related words: (words related to JEERING)

• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• BADINAGE
  Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.
• CHAFFER
  One who chaffs.
• BUFFOONERY
  The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• JEERER
  A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.
• SCURRILITY
  1. The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity. Your reasons . . . have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility. Shak. 2. That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language;
• BANTER
  1. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered
• BANTERER
  One who banters or rallies.
• JEER
  A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery. Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears. Swift.
• CHAFFERN
  A vessel for heating water. Johnson.
• ABUSE
  1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle shoots rapidly
• IRONY
  1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. Woodward. 2. Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
• JEERS
  See
• ABUSER
  One who abuses .
• CHAFFING
  The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.
• JEERING
  Mocking; scoffing. -- n.
• DERISION
  1. The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision
• CHAFFY
  1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge. 2. Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill. Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. Bearing or covered with dry scales,
• CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
  Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
• SELF-ABUSE
  1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
• CHIFF-CHAFF
  A species of European warbler ; -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.