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Meanings of heckling in English

Spanish
peinado
Wikidata

Combing process used to clean and straighten scutched flax or other bast fibers.

peinado
Catalan
esbronc
Spanish
bronca

Shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree.

esbronc
Synonyms
Examples for "hackling"
Examples for "hackling"
1
He'd like to draw us all over his hackling frames if he could.
The Spinners
2
Mummery and nothing more, yet no less hackling for that.
Voice of the Fire
3
Keep him out of the hackling shop, then.
The Spinners
4
The hackling was accomplished by means of the simplest devices, such as pounding with hammers or sticks.
Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States / Thirteenth An...
5
The next operations consist of "breaking," "scutching," and "hackling" and are now done by machinery.
Textiles and Clothing
Usage of heckling in English
1
Perhaps that's the best way to deal with offensive humor or heckling.
Climbing Magazine
2
Greg Webb, a chef, said: People are heckling me for wearing it.
The Guardian
3
I really feel for Danny this week and they've been heckling Rory.
Reuters
4
Especially when Phil and I were so used to heckling each other.
A Stir of Echoes
5
That's all perfectly sound: gender-related heckling generally emits from men to women.
The Guardian
6
Whether intentional or on their own merit, heckling usually accompanies such ineptitude.
Ebony
7
It was also-forNan was something of a bully-theheckling of Gerda.
Dangerous Ages
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Everyone was laughing and heckling and I was trying my heart out.
Rock and Ice Magazine
9
The Voice was a man's Voice trying to break into Joe's heckling-
Further adventures
10
During the middle of Phoenix's show, an audience member started heckling him.
The Guardian
11
The leads were all sitting in front, joking and heckling each other.
Monster Hunter Vendetta
12
We are heckling chefs on the Food Network when Mom comes home.
Love, life and linguine
13
Protesters were seen heckling the Brexit architect outside his home on Monday evening.
Reuters
14
Offers of cooperation at this point amount to heckling, to sneering.
Wired
15
Loudspeakers and restaurant heckling as activists protest against family separations in Washington DC.
BBC
16
Now Europe was heckling him; the settling of accounts was near.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2
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Translations for heckling
Heckling through the time
Heckling across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common