heckle
verb
[ ˈhɛk(ə)l ]
• interrupt (a public speaker) with derisive or aggressive comments or abuse.
• "he was booed and heckled when he tried to address the demonstrators"
Similar:
jeer,
taunt,
jibe at,
shout down,
shout at,
boo,
hiss,
disrupt,
interrupt,
harass,
shout catcalls at,
barrack,
give someone a hard time,
• dress (flax or hemp) to split and straighten the fibres for spinning.
• "hemp was heckled and spun into rope yarn"
heckle
noun
• a heckling comment.
• "heckles of ‘Get stuffed!’"
Origin:
Middle English (in heckle (sense 2 of the verb)): from heckle ‘flax comb’, a northern and eastern form of hackle. The sense ‘interrupt (a public speaker) with aggressive comments’ arose in the mid 17th century; for the development in sense, compare with tease.
