jeered / jird [ʤi:rd]
jeered – v. past & past part. of jeer – 1. speak or call out in derision or mockery; scoff derisively; 2. scoff at, deride; 3. drive or force away with ridicule/taunt
jird – n. – any of several North African gerbils, constituting a genus (Meriones) of the Cricetidae