Definitions
To interrupt, challenge, or jeer at a speaker or performer.
Word origin
Transferred usage of Middle English hekelen (“to comb flax or hemp with a heckle”), from hekele (“a comb for flax or hemp”), from Middle Dutch hekelen (“to prickle, irritate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakilōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakilōną, related to *hakô (“hook”). Related to hackle.
Used in a sentence
“Promise that you won't heckle me after my performance.”
“As late as 1854, the antichoir members of an Ohio Methodist congregation heckled the choir whenever it tried to sing, hoping to "bring discredit on the singers by creating discord."”
“It is the large brown bonxies that heckle me as I pass across the high moor and approach the sheep gate.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Jeer from crowd”6 letters
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