Meanings of jeerer in English

Still, derision usually trumps enthusiasm; a jeerer has an easier time being thought intelligent than an acclaimer.

One such jeerer (a most ingenious fellow) actually managed to set Vinculus's shoes on fire while Vinculus was speaking.

And therefore an impertinent jeerer makes the whole company seem ill-natured and abusive, as being pleased with and consenting to the scurrility of the jeer.

Lack of agreement among practitioners as to what philosophy is meant to do "bolsters a philosophy-jeerer's charge that philosophy never can establish anything", she writes.

Link to video The jeerers have mounted a spirited defence online and across call-in radio programs.

What good will all my companions, fellow-jesters, jeerers, liars, drunkards, and all my wantons do me?

Then Blackbeard stepped quietly forward and ordered eight of the jeerers to be strung up and flogged.

Starkad replied that he used in old days to chastise jeerers, and that the insolent had never insulted him unpunished.