intransitive verb. To make taunting, heckling, or jeering remarks.

intransitive verb. To deride with taunting remarks.

noun. A derisive remark.

To utter taunting or sarcastic words; rail; sneer; scoff: absolutely or with at.

Synonyms Jeer, Scoff, etc. See sneer.

To speak of or to with taunting or sarcastic words; deride; scoff at; rail at; ridicule.

Nautical See jibe.

noun. A tauntingly or contemptuously sarcastic remark; a scoff; a railing; an expression of sarcastic scorn.

noun. Synonyms Taunt, jeer, sneer, fleer, insult, reproach.

intransitive verb. To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock.

noun. An expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer.

intransitive verb. To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.

noun. A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.

verb. To perform a jibe (2, 3).

verb. To agree.

verb. To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).

verb. laugh at with contempt and derision

verb. be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

noun. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

"Paddy Ashdown, a former leader of the Liberal Democrats who took part in the IPPR study, recalled the gibe by the late U.S. secretary of state Dean Acheson in 1962: "Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.""

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Scribe  ascribe  bribe  circumscribe  describe  

badinage  banter  buffoonery  catcall  epigram  

Parthian shot  affront  aphorism  apothegm  aspersion  

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