单词 | jeer |
释义 | jeern.1 Nautical. Tackle for hoisting and lowering the lower yards. (Usually in plural.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > for raising or lowering yards jeer1495 yard-tackle1867 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 188 Jeres for the Mayne takell. 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 206 There is employed..iij hausers of vj ynch compas for makyng of ij mayne liftes and a mayne Jere. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 15 The cat harpings; a Ieare, leatch lines. 1672 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. 9 Sept. Captain Fowles comander of his Mastie Ann was dismissed from his comande for beatinge one Mr Murfeild comander of a collier at the Jers. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 34 He was lash'd to the Main-Geers and drub'd. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 95 I caused him to be brought to the Geers, with a Halter about his Neck, and be soundly whipp'd. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 25 Jears, lifts, and brails, a Seaman each attends. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 24 How will you reeve the jeers? They are usually rove with a reeving line, a becket is fitted in one end of the reeving line, and both ends of the jeers. Compounds jeer-bitt, jeer-block, jeer-capstan, jeer-pulley. ΚΠ 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 203 Jere poleyes vith a shyver of Brasse. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 13 A Ieare capsterne is onely in great ships to hoyse their sayles. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Jeer, or Jeer-Rope, a piece of Hawser made fast to the Main-Yard and Fore-Yard in great Ships, its use being to help to hoise up the Yard. 1768 J. Byron Narr. Patagonia 8 The straps of the fore jeer blocks breaking, the fore-yard came down. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Jeer-bitts, those to which the jeers are fastened and belayed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). jeern.2 1. a. An act of jeering; a derisive speech or utterance; a scoff, flout, gibe, taunt. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun] > instance of hoker-wordOE gabc1225 scornc1275 jape1377 bourda1387 gaudc1440 knack1513 scoffing1530 gleekc1540 jest1548 to have a fling at?1550 snack?1554 boba1566 taunta1566 gird1566 flim-flam-flirt1573 gibe1573 scoff1573 flouting-stock1593 mycterism1593 flirt1613 fleera1616 scomma1620 jeer1631 snouchc1780 brocard1837 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. i. 16 in Wks. II Fitt. Madrigall, a ieere. Mad. I know. 1642 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 82 [Lord Hotham] sending ye town a jear yt wn he comes he finds ym still in their beds. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. vii. 159 An impudent and unseasonable jeer, Had Zimri peace that slew his Master? 1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. (new ed.) 145 Half afraid he had put a Jear upon him, and that he should be Laughed at. 1729 J. Swift Grand Quest. 187 But the Dean, if this secret should come to his ears, Will never have done with his gibes and his jeers. 1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus i. ii. 31 With his savage jeers. 1880 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Pictures 16 A blow is much sooner forgotten than a jeer. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun] teenOE scoffing1377 jeering1561 gibing1579 scoffery1589 girding1605 scoffagea1639 jeer1660 scommatism1664 chi-hike1915 signifying1929 picongc1938 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 388 The statue of the Sun..a Spaniard took and gam'd away in a night, whereupon one said by way of jeer, that he had plaid away the Sun before he was up. 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. B2v With the utmost extremity of Jeere, Disdain, and Indignation. 1753 L. M. tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman I. 228 Socrates was naturally given to jeer and railing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective] > in an ill humour maltalenta1578 in a jeer1579 in suds1611 sullen-sick1614 in the pouts1615 out of sorts1621 cross1639 off the hooks1662 huff1714 sulkinga1777 as cross as a bear1838 sore-headed1844 sore-head1862 baity1921 1579–80 T. North tr. Cicero in Plutarch Lives (1895) V. 341 This Nepos..being Tribune, left in a geere [(ed. 2) iear] the exercise of his office, and went into Syria to Pompey, upon no occasion: and as fondly againe he returned thence upon a sodaine. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1633 J. Shirley Triumph of Peace 266 Yet there be some..mean to show Themselves jeer majors: some tall critics have Planted artillery and wit-murderers. 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 58* That he may have the Benefit of his owne jear-prayers to himselfe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). jeerv. 1. intransitive. To speak or call out in derision or mockery; to scoff derisively. Const. at. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (intransitive)] gab?c1225 scoffa1380 mockc1475 to mock and mow1509 jest1526 jeer1553 taunt1560 gibe1567 scripa1572 to come over ——1600 flirt1603 tit1622 to sling off (at)1911 signify1932 barrack- 1553 [implied in: 1553 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xi. 28 All ar not gyrers and mockers. (at jeerer n.)]. 1561 [implied in: Bp. R. Cox Let. Aug. in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 152 What rejoicing and jeering the adversaries make! (at jeering n.)]. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 264 b Therefore this Portingall Pasquill doth giere at Haddon by way of mockage. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1146/2 Some papists resorted thither to geere at him, some of his friends to mourne for him. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R4v But when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, And passe the bonds of modest merimake, Her dalliaunce he despisd. 1607 S. Hieron Remedie for Securitie in Wks. (1620) I. 430 Ishmael giereth at Isaac. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. v. 125 Smile good Reader, but doe not jeer at my curiosity herein. a1771 T. Gray Characters Christ Cross Row in Corr. Gray & N. Nicholls (1843) 219 Here Grub-street Geese presume to joke and jeer. 1887 Spectator 21 May 675/1 The meeting only jeered at him, and he was unable to make his voice heard. 2. transitive. To address or treat with scornful derision; to deride, flout, openly mock or scoff at. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (transitive)] heascenc1000 gabc1225 tita1400 knackc1425 scoff1530 flout1551 taunt1560 gird1573 beflout1574 scoff1578 gibe1582 flirt1593 gleek1593 to geck at1603 to gall ata1616 jeera1616 gorea1632 jest1721 fleer1732 chi-hike1874 chip1898 chip1898 to sling off (at)1911 jive1928 sound1958 wolf1966 a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 22 Yea, dost thou ieere & flowt me in the teeth? View more context for this quotation 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix Ep. Ded. Do they not deride and jeare religion? 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 221 I am here for my good qualities as your cosin Fortescue geer'd me not long since. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses ii. 10 Some odd Humours..for which John would jeer her. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 190 I jeer my weakness, painfully repent. 1857 C. M. Yonge Cameos xliii, in Monthly Packet Oct. 344 The mob pelted him and jeered him by his assumed name of King Arthur. 3. quasi-transitive. To drive (into, out of, etc., something) by jeering. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (transitive)] > drive into or out of by flout1551 jeera1661 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Staff. 47 A Fool of Mans making jeered into it by general Dirision. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra Introd. sig. B2v So far from being jeered out of our Religion, that [etc.]. a1810 R. Tannahill Poet. Wks. (1846) 20 I'll jeer my ancient wooer hame. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) viii. 88 They would jeer me off the stand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11495n.21579v.1553 |
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