- 1喝倒采、起鬨打斷；台上講話或表演時被台下嗆聲
To heckle someone is to interrupt them while they are speaking or performing in public, and to try to them or throw them off. The shout may be a sharp joke, a rude question, or a loud “you’re wrong.” You hear it at comedy clubs, political speeches, and sometimes at sports. It can be half-playful — a comedian expecting it — or it can be hostile, meant to wreck the speech. You heckle a person or heckle a show. The word is informal but news writers use it freely. Though actually, it first meant to comb flax with a spiky tool called a heckle; the “prickle and irritate” feeling moved from the plant fibres onto the speaker. That old farm sense is now rare; the crowd-shouting sense is the one everyone knows.
組成Transferred from Middle English hekelen, “to comb flax or hemp with a heckle” (a spiky comb), from hekele, from Middle Dutch hekelen “to prickle, irritate,” from a West Germanic verb related to a word for “hook.” The public-speaking sense kept the idea of catching and scratching at someone.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
heckleverb/ˈhɛkəl/
- 1
To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses.
- 2
To insult, tease, make fun of or badger, especially during a comedy performance.
- 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."
- 3
businessmanufacturingtextilesTo prepare (flax) for spinning, using special combs called hackles.
hecklenoun/ˈhɛkəl/
- 1
The long shining feathers on a cock's neck.
- 2
A feather ornament in the full-dress bonnets of Highland regiments.
- 3
An rude interruption during a show, especially a comedy performance
- The stand-up dealt well with the heckles from the crowd, replying with raucous banter to raise plenty of laughs.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- hackle
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