<adj.all> derisive laughter a jeering crowd her mocking smile taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'
Jeer \Jeer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jeered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jeering}.] [Perh. a corrup. of cheer to salute with cheers, taken in an ironical sense; or more prob. fr. D. gekscheren to jeer, lit., to shear the fool; gek a fool (see 1st {Geck}) + scheren to shear. See {Shear}, v.] To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker.
But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer. --Spenser.
Syn: To sneer; scoff; flout; gibe; mock.
Jeering \Jeer"ing\, a. Mocking; scoffing. -- n. A mocking utterance. -- {Jeer"ing*ly}, adv.
Riot police in green combat fatigues and black visored helmets watched, but did not intervene as jeering students burned the flag and shouted slogans after marching out of the main gate of the school across the road from the hotel.
Counterdemonstrators a half-block away began jeering and the supremacists responded with shouts and Nazi-style salutes.
As he left office on October 2, Mr Collor told jeering crowds: 'I will return.' Those close to him say he still cannot believe his downfall.
People lined up around the block as 75 demonstrators marched in a circle jeering at those buying tickets.
Soviet citizens themselves are weary of the old rhetoric. To be sure, there was no jeering crowd at Wednesday's parade, as there had been on May Day.
At the height of the rioting, jeering crowds called for Kaunda's resignation, one of the first public expressions of opposition to his leadership.
Patrick Egan, a tug cook, enjoyed jeering through a megaphone as the boat pulled alongside a barge owned by one of the struck companies.
A similar confrontation occurred in the Latvian capital of Riga, where for the second day whistling and jeering Soviet soldiers tried to muscle into the parliament building but were blocked by pro-independence crowds.
"He was the only one we could catch," Gouveia said. "It was ugly out there." Delivery trucks also rolled past hundreds of jeering protesters outside News plants in the New York City borough of Brooklyn and in Garden City on Long Island.
A group of jeering youths interfered with the rescue and helped the muggers get away - but not before one of them hit the victim in the face and knocked her to the platform.