What's the difference between cackle and jeer?

Cackle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
  • (v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
  • (v. i.) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
  • (n.) The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
  • (n.) Idle talk; silly prattle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And Jesus Christ, we don’t know about him – it seems as if he may have just been a Jewish radical, so if I had to pick one… heheheheh!” He cackles like a crazy.
  • (2) Tommy from Vice City is a cackling psychopath, and CJ from San Andreas merely rides the acquisitionist philosophy of hip-hop culture to terminal amorality.
  • (3) Herman cackles and screams as he pushes the meat into Anwar's mouth.
  • (4) We strolled across springy heather and moss as wet as a sponge, and a strange cackling call of “go-back, go-back” rose on the wind: small coveys of red grouse whirred away from us.
  • (5) And we can hear the old man cackle: "You see, I told you so!
  • (6) The only sound is the astonishing cackle of a green woodpecker.
  • (7) Churchill described the code breakers as "golden geese who laid the golden eggs and never cackled".
  • (8) But cackling local baddie Lawrence Murphy (Jack Palance) turns up to ruin their fun.
  • (9) This feat he proudly recorded: “One cackling young crone claimed loudly that I had no evidence.” As well as limiting access to abortion and excluding women from company boards and any other careers where they might take men’s jobs, Mr Buchanan hopes, with his election campaign, to inflict especial damage on the Labour party, to which end he is standing against Gloria de Piero .
  • (10) She grins gamely while the ghost of Ricky Gervais cackles loudly in the wings.
  • (11) Nonetheless, this is the first time I think I've seen it framed in such a "female" way and, as we are usually the ones being told not to "leave it too late", I have to admit that I almost cackled (young women have delicate, tinkling laughs, but feminists cackle, obviously).
  • (12) Somehow I think I can hear him cackling now, laughing at us as we write and read all these pieces about him.
  • (13) What so riles the Lib Dems – and, just to make this clear, it's their own fault – is that the plot of the coalition's story may well turn out to be something like this: Cameron in Flashman mode, craftily convincing his new friends to journey into the unknown, leaving them mortally wounded, and walking away, cackling, with barely a scratch.
  • (14) The 'cingular' vocalization area lies around the sulcus cinguli at the level of the genu of the corpus callosum; its electrical stimulation yields purring and cackling calls.
  • (15) We’ve all, surely, been tailgated by cackling non-EU students, pushed off the road and forced to take an alternative route.
  • (16) (To the sort of people who cackle at children, yes.)
  • (17) As Bond aficionados will be well aware, White’s job is to turn up every now and then to offer up cackling portents of impending doom regarding terrifying nefarious organisations that 007 and his pals appear to know nothing about.
  • (18) When I finish maybe I’ll play Sunday league.” Defoe cackles and thinks of home.
  • (19) "My dear Watson, your stupidity never lets you down," Holmes cackled, drawing deeply on a pipe of heaviest shag.
  • (20) I found my people, finally.” She cackles at the memories: the times she would drive down the motorway with Geri, both of them topless; the drinking, the clubbing, the fights.

Jeer


Definition:

  • (n.) A gear; a tackle.
  • (n.) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.
  • (n.) A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But, truth be told, Putin is also at a loss when he gets jeered.
  • (2) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
  • (3) "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country," he told a jeering audience at Columbia University in New York during his UN visit.
  • (4) It was reported that the Greek tourist board had asked TV networks to keep the crowd volume low amid fears Greek fans in the stadium would drown out the German national anthem with jeers.
  • (5) One investor who spoke up in defence of bonuses – the former City fund manager and Conservative party donor Patrick Evershed – was jeered by one of those present, who shouted "call him a taxi".
  • (6) "I found that most of the MPs just sat jeering at everybody and not actually listening to what people were saying – just what my image of parliament is in my head," said one participant.
  • (7) Behind the chancellor, Tories kept up a wall of noise, laughing and jeering at the misery guts on the benches opposite.
  • (8) Goodes, who has been in the headlines all week after being the target of much jeering from Hawthorn fans during a rematch of the 2014 grand final, was again targeted vocally and loudly at the SCG.
  • (9) Dundee’s Harkins then slashed wide in the fourth of four added minutes before the final whistle brought jeers raining down on the home side.
  • (10) And take their boos and jeers as confirmation that it’s on to something.
  • (11) in the manner of John Major as the Tories jeered some more.
  • (12) Winmar, who played 251 AFL games, made a stand against racism in 1993 when he lifted his jumper and pointed to his skin after being jeered by Collingwood fans at Victoria Park.
  • (13) It was all very well for erstwhile broadsheet newspaper readers to jeer "Who cares?"
  • (14) In a move that sparked laughter and jeers in the Commons, the shadow chancellor pulled out a copy of the Quotations from Chairman Mao to make a point about George Osborne’s attempts to sell off state assets to the Chinese.
  • (15) The police said they had no evidence of the incident, captured on camera by a jeering mob, but opened investigations to find out if the men were "sodomites".
  • (16) Burkhardt encountered sharp criticism from Quebec politicians and jeers from Lac-Mégantic residents while making his first visit to the town.
  • (17) (There is jeering, because the Lib Dems say this is there policy.)
  • (18) Police officer Thet Lwin, speaking at the scene, said the fire was triggered by an electrical short "and not due to any criminal activity" but was jeered by the crowd for saying so.
  • (19) Remember the Trump supporter who disagreed with everything Trump said but explained: “He’s just my kind of guy.” Like it or jeer, these are the people who now win elections.
  • (20) Sterling’s omission from the starting XI had created the pre-match buzz and the substitute was jeered by plenty of travelling supporters by the tunnel in the corner as he returned to the dressing room after the warm-up.