SuaviloquyToday’s word

jeering

Jeering, a.

Mocking; scoffing. -- n.

A mocking utterance. -- Jeer"ing*ly, adv.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for jeering; he lists it under banter.

Where he writes about it:

Chaff is the coarse witticism of the streets, perhaps merry, oftener malicious; jeering is loud, rude ridicule, as of a hostile crowd or mob. — from banter