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means To mock or taunt someone loudly and scornfully, usually in a group, to humiliate rather than inform.

from Of uncertain origin — it surfaces in English in the 1500s, and one old guess ties it to the Dutch 'gieren,' meaning to roar or bray, as if the crowd's scorn were an animal sound. But etymologists treat that link as shaky at best, so the word's true roots stay murky — fittingly, for something meant to drown out whatever you were trying to say.