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# heckle

«heckle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to shout rude or annoying comments at someone who is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (heckle, heckles, heckled, heckling); noun (a heckle, heckles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To heckle means to shout rude or annoying comments at someone who is speaking or performing in public, to interrupt them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#m1)

2) A heckle is one of those shouted comments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#m2)

3) A heckle is also a wooden comb with metal teeth, used to comb flax or hemp into fibres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life hecklers can be heard at comedy shows, football matches and political speeches. Heckling is usually seen as rude, though in Parliament some loud comments are a tradition. In stories, a heckler shows a crowd is against the speaker. A good performer may reply to a heckle with a joke. The person is a heckler.

### examples

- Someone in the crowd heckled the politician. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x1)
- The comedian had a funny answer for every heckle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x2)
- It is rude to heckle a speaker at assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x3)
- The fans heckled the referee all game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x4)
- Hecklers kept shouting during the speech. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x5)
- She kept calm even when they heckled her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x6)
- Heckling is combing it with a heckle or wooden comb; binnings are halters for cattle made of sprit or rushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: heckled, heckling. A person who heckles is a heckler. Heckling is shouting at a speaker; it is different from asking a question politely.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heckle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.