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# heckle

verb (heckle, heckles, heckled, heckling); noun (a heckle, heckles)

«heckle» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To heckle means to shout rude or annoying comments at someone who is speaking or performing in public, to interrupt them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#m1)
2. A heckle is one of those shouted comments. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#m2)
3. A heckle is also a wooden comb with metal teeth, used to comb flax or hemp into fibres. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life hecklers can be heard at comedy shows, football matches and political speeches. Heckling is usually seen as rude, though in Parliament some loud comments are a tradition. In stories, a heckler shows a crowd is against the speaker. A good performer may reply to a heckle with a joke. The person is a heckler.

### Examples

- Someone in the crowd heckled the politician. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x1)
- The comedian had a funny answer for every heckle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x2)
- It is rude to heckle a speaker at assembly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x3)
- The fans heckled the referee all game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x4)
- Hecklers kept shouting during the speech. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x5)
- She kept calm even when they heckled her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x6)
- Heckling is combing it with a heckle or wooden comb; binnings are halters for cattle made of sprit or rushes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb: heckled, heckling. A person who heckles is a heckler. Heckling is shouting at a speaker; it is different from asking a question politely.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «heckle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heckle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«heckle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/heckle.html) on Mova free.