Forms: see JEER v.; also 6 girar. [f. JEER v. + -ER1.] One who jeers or calls out in derision; a mocker, scoffer.
1553. in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), III. App. xi. 28. All ar not gyrers and mockers.
1562. Leigh, Armorie (1597), A iv. Such girars nowe be, who seeming to contemne all thinges, become themselues a contempt to all men.
1569. Foxe, A. & M. (1583), 2105. Henry Smith … beyng now a foule gierer and a scornfull scorner of that religion which before he professed … strangled himselfe.
1637. Jackson, Treat. God’s Forewarn., Wks. 1844, VI. 131. He … doth either jeer our Saviour or make him to be a jeerer of the sons of affliction.
1837. Major Richardson, Brit. Legion, iii. (ed. 2), 61. The grumbler and the jeerer sat side by side upon the road.
