What's the difference between heckle and jeer?

Heckle


Definition:

  • (n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I was at a comedy club trying to do my act, and I got heckled and I took it badly and went into a rage," Richards said.
  • (2) The performance was not without some good‑natured heckling, largely involving bellowed chants of "We want you to stay" from the assembled playing staff.
  • (3) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
  • (4) I told her how sorry I was, and that I thought she was heckling because she hated my show.
  • (5) Malcolm Turnbull heckled by Liberals as anger lingers over Tony Abbott's ouster Read more Villatora, who had earlier warned the NSW state council about the party increasingly resembling “a closed shop”, said the limited trials between now and 2019 were an “important step towards a fully democratic party”.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nicky Morgan heckled at NASUWT conference – video No one had consulted, it seems, the hundreds of Tory-controlled councils that regard running education as one of their big jobs.
  • (7) One said: “We should read the bills before we pass the bills.” There were heckles from Republicans.
  • (8) In Riga, a city with a majority of ethnic Russians, a small band of protesters heckled the marchers with calls such as: "Shame on you", "A disgrace" and "What is there to be proud of?"
  • (9) Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney was heckled repeatedly during his closing rally of the Iowa campaign, with shouts that he is ignoring the poor and is too close to Wall Street.
  • (10) At one point, Watson was heckled by an audience member.
  • (11) Seann Walsh: It's bad when someone heckles you by shouting out "Taxi!".
  • (12) Helena says there are reports that the mission chiefs were also heckled as they arrived, but there are no further incidents reported.
  • (13) The funniest heckle I’ve ever had When I was a larger man, I went onstage wearing a stripy T-shirt and someone shouted: “Horizontal stripes are a fat man no-no!” Harsh but fair.
  • (14) I want you to be very happy.” But the politeness very quickly faded as he interrupted, heckled, rolled his eyes and tried to throw the authority figure off her game with lies.
  • (15) CND stewards threw out the hecklers just as Labour party conference stewards had thrown out CND's Walter Wolfgang when he heckled Jack Straw the previous month.
  • (16) Republican healthcare bill limps into recess with no vote in sight Read more Amid heckling and chanting, Cassidy attempted to describe his efforts to draft new legislation and answered angry questioning about the Senate healthcare plan which did not come to a vote this week , after party leaders realised they did not have enough votes to pass it.
  • (17) But in Dundee’s Overgate shopping centre, where Murphy was heckled by yes supporters during his pro-union speaking tour last summer, the impact of Scottish Labour’s recent pronouncements on welfare, fracking or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership appears minimal.
  • (18) They call me names – some of them even heckle me at public meetings.
  • (19) This is my objection to the reforms being proposed – whether from the inside by threatening exit, or by exiting and heckling from the sidelines.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Confrontations with protesters in Reno were few compared with other campaign stops, leaving Trump begging for a protester to heckle.

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.

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