Hoot vs Jeer - What's the difference?
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A derisive cry or shout.
The cry of an owl.
(US, slang) A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
A small particle
* 1878 , John Hanson Beadle, Western Wilds, and the Men who Redeem Them , page 611, Jones Brothers, 1878
To cry out or shout in contempt.
* Dryden
To make the cry of an owl.
* Shakespeare
To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
* Jonathan Swift
A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.
* 1711 , , The Fable of Midas, in The Works of Jonathan Swift , D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5,
To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
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(archaic) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt; to flout.
* Ben Jonson
(nautical) A gear; a tackle.
(nautical, in the plural) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
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As nouns the difference between hoot and jeer
is that hoot is a derisive cry or shout while jeer is a railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.As verbs the difference between hoot and jeer
is that hoot is to cry out or shout in contempt while jeer is to utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.hoot
English
Noun
(en noun)- Well, it was Sunday morning, and the wheat nothing like ripe; but it was a chance, and I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it before Monday night.
Usage notes
* (small particle) The term is nearly always encountered in a negative sense in such phrases as don't care a hoot'' or ''don't give two hoots . * (derisive cry) The phrase a hoot and a holler'' has a very different meaning to ''hoot and holler''. The former is a short distance, the latter is a verb of ''derisive cry .Verb
(en verb)- Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more.
- the clamorous owl that nightly hoots
- Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat.
See also
* hooter * hootenannyAnagrams
* ----jeer
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps a corruption of ).Noun
(en noun)- Midas, exposed to all their jeers , Had lost his art, and kept his ears.
Verb
(en verb)- But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer .
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- And if we cannot jeer' them, we ' jeer ourselves.
