heckling

heckling

English

Verb

heckling

1. present participle 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.