Wednesday, June 07, 2006

heckle

  • Meaning: to try to embarrass or annoy (someone performing or speaking in public) by questions or remarks
  • In Hong Kong slang: 明串, 搞串party, gee-gud, 玩野
  • In decent Chinese: 刁難, 挑剔, 針對
  • Where we first met: BBC 'On This Day' (7 June 2000) - ' ... Women's Institute members ... heckled and slow hand-clapped a speech [Tony Blair] gave to their conference.'

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