fleer
1 Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of fleer1
1350–1400; Middle English flerien (v.) < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian flire a grin
Origin of fleer2
Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; see origin at flee, -er 1
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Example Sentences
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But as she passed through the portal down the steps of the turret, she flung back certain words with a defiant fleer.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
At any rate, that strutting chanticleer, with his two meagre wives and one wizened chicken, is a sly side fleer at the tragic aspect of the law of descent.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various
Perhaps there was some truth in Betty's fleer, of her never having known any better company than that of the village apothecary.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
But there, you will, and your sisters will have something to fleer and jeer at then, and your father will purr in my face, and spit and swear behind my back.
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn
Then, the foolish people, they looke, they stare, they laugh, they fleer, and mount upon fourmes and pewes, to see these goodly pageants solemnized in this sort.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
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