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# jeer

«jeer» in Mova's school dictionary: **to shout or laugh at someone in a rude, mocking way to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (jeer, jeers, jeered, jeering); noun (a jeer, jeers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To jeer is to shout or laugh at someone in a rude, mocking way to show you do not like them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeer/#m1)

2) A jeer is a rude, mocking shout or remark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Stories and sport: crowds jeer at the other team or the referee. Citizenship and kindness lessons: jeering is a kind of bullying. It tells the reader that people are being unkind as a group. Phrases: «jeer at», «boos and jeers».

### examples

- The crowd jeered at the referee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeer/#x1)
- It is unkind to jeer at someone who falls over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeer/#x2)
- The boos and jeers stopped when the band started. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeer/#x3)
- The bullies jeered as he walked past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeer/#x4)
- The player ignored the jeers and scored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeer/#x5)
- Nobody should jeer at someone's clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeer/#x6)
- I tried speaking him fair, but he jeered at me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jeer/#x7)

### note

Regular: jeered. Often with «at». Similar: mock, taunt, boo. Opposite: cheer.

### Trees and pragmatics

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