jeer – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to jeer
Participle: jeered
Gerund: jeering

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	jeer
we	Let's jeer
you	jeer

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to make fun of

befool, bust on, clown around, gibe, gird, gleek, jape, jive, josh, kid, make a fool of, make fun of, make sport of, mimic, mock, needle, niggle, poke fun at, pull one's leg, razz, rib, roast, satirize, scoff, scorn, take the mickey, tease, twit

to harshly mock; to treat with contempt

badger, bam, barrack, brock, bullyrag, chiack, deride, fleer, fligger, flite, geck, heckle, hound, nip, poke borack

scoff

insult, deride, mock, ridicule, taunt, gibe, flout

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1553, gyr, "to deride, to mock," perhaps from Du. gieren "to cry or roar," or Ger. scheren "to plague, vex," lit. "to shear." OED finds the suggestion that it is an ironical use of cheer "plausible and phonetically feasible, ... but ... beyond existing evidence."
2. From earlier gyr, probably from Dutch gieren (“to roar with laughter, laugh loudly”) (related to German gieren (“to gape, snap”)); or from Dutch gekscheren (“to jeer”, literally “to shear the fool”), from gek (“a fool”) (see geck) + scheren (“to shear”) (see shear (verb)). The OED states no verifiable connection to English cheer. See: Dutch 'gieren', German, old spelling 'gieren', Dutch 'gekscheren'.

Verbs referencing "jeer"

German, old spelling gieren.

Sample Sentences