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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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
He had discussed everything under heaven in his brilliant, erratic way, with a fleer of cynicism toward it all, but he had left himself out completely.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
It was half open, and the moon’s licht danced in on the fleer.
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables
Why didst thou fleer at our Friend, who feigned himself asleep? he said nothing, but how dost thou know what he containeth?
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
They mock and fleer at us sons of honest toil.
From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Margaret Penrose
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