Heckler
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| A '''heckler''' is a person who shouts a [[disparaging]] comment at a performance or event, or interrupting set-piece speeches, for example at a political meeting. | A '''heckler''' is a person who shouts a [[disparaging]] comment at a performance or event, or interrupting set-piece speeches, for example at a political meeting. | ||
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| + | Transferred usage of Middle English ''hekelen'' (“to comb flax or hemp with a heckle”), from ''hekele'' (“a comb for flax or hemp”), from Middle Dutch ''hekelen'' (“to prickle, irritate”), from Proto-Germanic ''*hakilōną''. Related to hackle. | ||
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A heckler is a person who shouts a disparaging comment at a performance or event, or interrupting set-piece speeches, for example at a political meeting.
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Etymology
Transferred usage of Middle English hekelen (“to comb flax or hemp with a heckle”), from hekele (“a comb for flax or hemp”), from Middle Dutch hekelen (“to prickle, irritate”), from Proto-Germanic *hakilōną. Related to hackle.
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