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FLEER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of FLEER is to laugh or grimace in a coarse derisive manner : sneer. How to use fleer in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Fleer. www.merriam-webster.com
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fleering, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the noun fleering is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for fleering is from 1533, in the writing of Thomas More, ... www.oed.com
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fleering - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
fleering. present participle and gerund of fleer. Noun. edit. fleering (plural fleerings). (obsolete) scorn; derision · c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, ... en.wiktionary.org
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fleering
▪ I. fleering, vbl. n. (ˈflɪərɪŋ) [f. fleer v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. fleer.1533 More Debell. Salem Wks. 962/2 Haue they neuer so fayre a flering at the first face: yet..they bee..farre woorse than noughte. 1570 T. Norton in Udall's Royster D. (1847) p. xli, Their fleering..their whispering... Oxford English Dictionary
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fleering - American Heritage Dictionary Entry
To smirk or laugh in contempt or derision. n. A taunting, scoffing, or derisive look or gibe. [Middle English flerien, of Scandinavian origin ... ahdictionary.com
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Glossary - ShakespearesWords.com
fleering (adj.) Old form(s): flearing. sneering, jeering, scornfully laughing. Headword location(s). SHAKESPEARE'S WORDS © 2025 DAVID CRYSTAL & BEN CRYSTAL. www.shakespeareswords.com
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Insult
Rejection signals Mockery signals Symbolic insults Dirt signals Elizabethans took great interest in such analyses, distinguishing out, for example, the "fleering wikipedia.org
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Webster's Dictionary 1828 - Fleering
Fleering, FLEE'RING, participle present tense, Deriding; mocking; counterfeiting an air of civility. webstersdictionary1828.com
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fleering, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the adjective fleering is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for fleering is from before 1400, ... www.oed.com
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FLEER Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
fleer ; verb (used without object). to grin or laugh coarsely or mockingly. ; verb (used with object). to mock or deride. ; noun. a fleering look; a jeer or gibe. www.dictionary.com
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FLEER definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
1. to grin or laugh coarsely or mockingly. transitive verb. 2. to mock or deride. noun. www.collinsdictionary.com
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Fleer - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
fleer · noun. someone who flees from an uncongenial situation. synonyms: fugitive, runaway. see moresee less. type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, ... www.vocabulary.com
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fleer
▪ I. fleer, n.1 Now rare. (ˈfliːə(r)) Also 4–6 fleear. [f. flee v. + -er1.] One who flees; a. one who runs away, a fugitive; b. one who withdraws from or shuns (const. of).1375 Barbour Bruce iii. 51 He reskewyt all the flearis. c 1470 Henry Wallace x. 341 Sic a flear befor was neuir seyn. 1598 R. Gr... Oxford English Dictionary
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distastive
† disˈtastive, a. (n.) Obs. [f. as prec. + -ive.] 1. Feeling or expressing distaste or dislike.1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xv. §10 (R.) Such fleering pick-thanks, that blow them [my faults] stronger into your unwilling and distastiue ear. 2. Disgusting, unpleasant, offensive.1600 Newe Metamorphos... Oxford English Dictionary
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misinstruct
misinˈstruct, v. [mis-1 1.] trans. To instruct amiss.1547–64 Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 147 When they haue beene..misinstructed..by a fawning and fleering flatterer. 1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlix. §3 Let vs not thinke that our Sauiour did misinstruct his disciples. 1843 Blackw. Mag. LIV. 31 He.... Oxford English Dictionary
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