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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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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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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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girn
▪ I. girn, n.1 Sc. (gɜːn) Also 4–6 gyrne, 6 girne. [var. of grin n.1] 1. a. † A noose (obs.). b. A snare or trap for catching animals or birds, made of hair, wire, or the like, with a running noose.c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Paulus 1140 He a stalowart gyrne can ma To hang hym-self with be þe hals. 1535... Oxford English Dictionary
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warping
▪ I. ˈwarping, vbl. n.1 [f. warp v. + -ing1.] † 1. The action of throwing. Obs.a 1150 in Archiv. Stud. neu. Spr. CXVII. 27 Iactura, werpinge. 14.. Hist. K. Boccus & Sydracke (? 1510) T j b, And whan the fowle is a lofte..With the warpyng of his wynge He doth the ayre a sondre mynge. 2. a. The action... Oxford English Dictionary
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tiff
▪ I. † tiff, n.1 Obs. rare—1. [f. tiff v.1] Manner of dressing or arranging, get-up; the way in which the hair, wig, etc. is dressed.1703 The Levellers in Harl. Misc. (1745) V. 419/2 Did you mark the beau Tiff of his Wig, what a deal of Pains he took to toss it back?▪ II. tiff, n.2 colloq. or slang.... Oxford English Dictionary
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wrinkle
▪ I. wrinkle, n.1 (ˈrɪŋk(ə)l) Also 5–6 wryncle, -kle, -kel, -kul, -kyl(le, 6 wrynckle, wrinkel(l, -kyll, -ckel, 6–7 wrinc(k)le (6 rinkle, 7 rinckle, -el). [Of obscure origin; possibly a back-formation from wrinkled a. Somner's OE. ‘wrincle, ruga, a wrincle’ is not otherwise known. Kilian's ‘wrinckel... Oxford English Dictionary
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crane
▪ I. crane, n.1 (kreɪn) Forms: 1–3 cran, 3 cron, krane, 3– crane. (Also 4 crone, Sc. cren, 5 craane, 6 crayne, craune, 5– Sc. cran, 6–7 craine, 7–8 crain.) [OE. cran corresponds to MG. kran, MLG. krân, krôn. Cf. MDu. crāne, Du. kraan:—OLG. krano, kranu, OHG. with guttural suffix, chranuh, chranih, M... Oxford English Dictionary
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jig
▪ I. jig, n.1 (dʒɪg) Forms: 6 Sc. ieig, 6–7 iyg, iigge, iygge, gigge, 7 gig, ijgge, 7–8 jigg, 7– jig. [Origin uncertain. Often assumed to be identical with OF. gigue a kind of stringed instrument, a rude fiddle, It. and Sp. giga, MHG. gîge, Ger. geige; but as to this there are difficulties: the OF. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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turban
▪ I. turban, n. (ˈtɜːbən) Forms: α. 6 tolipane, -epan, tolliban, tulbant, (tal-), 6–7 tuliban, tolibant, -e, tulipan, 7 tulipant, -e, tullipant, -band, tul-, (tel-)-bent, dulipan, tulban; β. 6 torbant, turribant, turbanto, 6–9 turbant, -band, 6–7 -bante, -bent, 7 -bond, -bat); γ. 7 turben, -bine, -b... Oxford English Dictionary
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distance
▪ I. distance, n. (ˈdɪstəns) Forms: 3 destance, 4 -aunce, distawns, 4–6 distans, dis-, dystaunce, 5 dis-, dystawnce, distauns, 3– distance. [a. OF. destance, distance (13th c. in Littré), ad. L. distāntia ‘standing apart’, hence ‘separation, opening (between); distance, remoteness; difference, diver... Oxford English Dictionary
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