jeer(n = noun.communication) jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing - showing your contempt by derision;
is a kind of derision
Derived form verb jeer₁

   jeer(v = verb.communication) barrack, flout, gibe, scoff - laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"
is one way to bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit
Derived forms noun jeer₁, noun jeerer₁, noun jeering₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

   A gear; a tackle. [1913 Webster]

   To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker. [1913 Webster]
"But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer."

   To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at. [1913 Webster]
"And if we can not jeer them, we jeer ourselves." [1913 Webster]

   A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery. [1913 Webster]
"Midas, exposed to all their jeers,
Had lost his art, and kept his ears." [1913 Webster]

jeer, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. (usu. foll. by at) scoff derisively.
2 tr. scoff at; deride.
--n. a scoff or taunt.

Derivative:
jeeringly adv.

Etymology:
16th c.: orig. unkn.

N  disrespect, disesteem, disestimation, disparagement irreverence, slight, neglect, spretae injuria formae, superciliousness, vilipendency, vilification, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy, practical joking, scurrility, scoffing, sibilance, hissing, sibilation, irrision, derision, mockery, irony, sarcasm, hiss, hoot, boo, gibe, flout, jeer, scoff, gleek, taunt, sneer, quip, fling, wipe, slap in the face, disrespectful, aweless, irreverent, disparaging, insulting, supercilious, contemptuous, patronizing, rude, derisive, sarcastic, scurrile, scurrilous, contumelious, unrespected, unworshiped, unenvied, unsaluted, unregarded, disregarded, disrespectfully.

VB  hold in disrespect, misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve, be disrespectful, be discourteous, treat with disrespect, set down, put down, browbeat, dishonor, desecrate, insult, affront, outrage, speak slightingly of, disparage, vilipend, vilify, call names, throw dirt, fling dirt, drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities, make mouths, make faces, bite the thumb, take by the beard, pluck by the beard, toss in a blanket, tar and feather, have in derision, hold in derision, deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, snigger, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer, roast, turn into ridicule, burlesque, laugh to scorn, smoke, fool, make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of, play a practical joke, lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout, mob.