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[ hek-uhl ] / ˈhɛk əl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR heckle ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object), heck·led, heck·ling.to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger. hackle1 (def. 7). Origin of heckle1275–1325; Middle English hekelen, variant of hechelen to comb flax; akin to hackle1, hatchel SYNONYMS FOR heckle1 bait, provoke, needle, hector, hound. SEE SYNONYMS FOR heckle ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM heckleheckler, nounWords nearby hecklehechsher, Hecht, Hecht's pneumonia, heck, heckelphone, heckle, heckuva, hect-, hectare, hectic, hecto- Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for heckleKnown on stage for his confrontational style, Gelman heckles the audience as much as they heckle him. Brett Gelman Has Dinner with Your Favorite TV Sidekicks|Rich Goldstein|April 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST We go to the ball park, we heckle a pitcher who throws one bad pitch. Eliot Spitzer Mobbed by Press, Heckled at First Campaign Stop|David Freedlander|July 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST Banners were waved and speakers were both cheered and jeered—opponents commonly turned up to heckle. The Lessons of the British Women’s Fight for the Vote|Frances Osborne|June 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST A group of anti-monarchy protestors gathered in Montreal to heckle the young royals, holding up signs reading “Royal Parasites.” Will and Kate’s Excellent Adventure|The Daily Beast Video|July 8, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Please torment, harass, vex, heckle, and badger those two blockheads until they honor their commitments to my defense fund. John Grisham's Debut Short Story|John Grisham|October 26, 2009|DAILY BEAST After all, you're not a professional explainer of the universe that I should heckle you thus.' The Grandchildren of the Ghetto|Israel Zangwill Whenever one half of the length of the strake of flax is heckled, it is turned round to heckle the other half. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure Upon an oblong plank a b, two circular or square blocks of wood c and d are fixed, in which the heckle teeth stand upright. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure A knot of the younger element tried to heckle Percy, but he strode loftily by them, puffing his inevitable cigarette. Jim Spurling, Fisherman|Albert Walter Tolman I was going to heckle him, when he explained—and with what so far unknown deference, in him, to one's bewilderment! The Romantic Lady|Michael Arlen
British Dictionary definitions for heckle
verbto interrupt (a public speaker, performer, etc) by comments, questions, or taunts Also: hackle, hatchel (tr) to comb (hemp or flax) nounan instrument for combing flax or hemp Derived forms of heckleheckler, nounWord Origin for heckleC15: Northern and East Anglian form of hackle Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to hecklepester, bully, tease, rattle, taunt, ridicule, interrupt, embarrass, hound, badger, discomfit, disturb, gibe, faze, bother, disconcert, bait, plague, torment, disrupt |