[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That jeers; scornfully mocking, derisively scoffing.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 258 b. Here is no want of any thing nowe, but of some gyering Gnato, which may lowt this Thraso out of hys paynted coat.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 1812 (1594), M iiij. Esteemed … As seelie ieering idiots are with Kings.
1598. B. Jonson, Ev. Man in Hum., I. ii. Such petulant, geering gamsters that can spare No … subject from their jest.
1762. Lloyd, Hare & Tort., Poems 37. Friend tortoise, quoth the jeering hare, Your burthen’s more than you can bear.
1828. Carlyle, Misc., Goethe (1872), II. 198. Even in these trivial, jeering, withered, unbelieving days.
