What's the difference between jeer and mocking?

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.

Mocking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mock
  • (a.) Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So is the mock courtroom promising “justice and fairness”.
  • (2) Infants were habituated to models posing either prototypically positive displays (e.g., happy expressions) or positive expression blends (e.g., mock surprise).
  • (3) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
  • (4) The method correlated well with a radio-enzymatic assay for mock unknown sera (r = 0.981).
  • (5) Uptake of 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl-E-5-(2-bromovinyl)uracil (BV-araU) into herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)- and 2 (HSV-2)-infected cells was elevated about 190 to 40 times, compared with that into mock-infected human embryo lung fibroblast cells.
  • (6) Arsenal had the game in their pocket and the Welshman was having such a nightmare - he missed the target with a far-post volley in the second half - that the Arsenal fans were mocking him with chants of 'Give it to Giggsy'.
  • (7) A series of experiments performed with the two immuneprecipitation techniques, reducing or nonreducing electrophoretic conditions, and addition of preformed mock BA-1 immuneprecipitate to BA-1-Sepharose immuneprecipitates convincingly demonstrated that the previously described 55 and 65 kilodalton components were artifacts caused by co-migration of CD24 with IgG and IgM heavy chains, respectively.
  • (8) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
  • (9) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
  • (10) Social media has seized on the story, turning the Eastern Washington University’s professor of African studies into a figure vilified and mocked for cultural appropriation in the midst of fraught debates over transgender identity and police shootings of black people.
  • (11) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
  • (12) This is a chancellor who has produced a budget for hedge fund managers more than for small businesses.” Corbyn made a point of mocking some of the chancellor’s grand rhetoric of recent years.
  • (13) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
  • (14) But he mocked Mitchell when he told the BBC Sunday Politics: "He's never used it in my presence, but then again I'm very proud myself to be a pleb."
  • (15) We evaluated the stroke work developed by these SMVs at afterloads of 30 mm Hg and 80 mm Hg in vivo, using a mock circulation device.
  • (16) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
  • (17) The Iraqi government needs to “mock and disprove” Islamic State’s online propaganda more effectively and more quickly Malcolm Turnbull has told an elite audience in Washington, saying he will raise the problem when he meets US president Barack Obama.
  • (18) But that aside, I have to disagree with what, I think, is Mr Hitchens' point about fashion: that in order to prevent disasters such as 70s style returning, we should always dress with one eye on how future generations will mock us.
  • (19) On STFU, Parents , a blog that "mocks examples of parental overshare", photographs of a child's vomit ("This is what I had to clear up today!")
  • (20) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.