Jeered vs Heered - What's the difference?
jeered | heered |
(jeer)
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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* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool
, work=BBC Sport
(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.
*
(dialectal) heard; (hear)
* {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Samuel Woodworth Cozzens, title=The Young Trail Hunters, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Putty soon I heered somebody down in the woods a-callin'. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Zane Grey, title=The Light of Western Stars, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Old as I am, Miss Majesty, an' used as I am to cowboy excentrikities, I nearly dropped daid when I heered that little hobble-footed, burned-up Montana cow-puncher say there wasn't any game too swell for him, an' gol-lof was just his speed. }}
As verbs the difference between jeered and heered
is that jeered is (jeer) while heered is (dialectal) heard; (hear).jeered
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Verb
(head)jeer
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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.
Synonyms
* (to utter sarcastic remarks) scoff, sneer * (to treat with scoffs) deride, flout, gibe, mock, ridiculeEtymology 2
Compare (gear).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* jeer capstanheered
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