heckling

English

Verb

heckling

  1. present participle and gerund of heckle

Noun

heckling (plural hecklings)

  1. The act of one who heckles.
    • 2008, Ruth Wodak, Veronika Koller, Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere, page 256:
      Speeches during parliamentary debates, however, belong to linguistic action patterns in which interruptions and hecklings (Burkhardt 2004) are generally conventionalised and accepted as facultative reactions […]
  2. The preparation of flax for spinning using special combs called hackles.
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