fleer

• There is another word, "fleer," which sounds like a portmanteau of flinch and sneer but isn't. —  Hartford Courant blogs
• His fleer was wide of the mark Wa'al"--he made another effort--"Tobe, we war jes sayin', ain't fitten fur ter be ranger o' the county. —  'way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895
• They sha' na flout and fleer, the feckless queans, the hissies wha'll threep to stan' i' your auld shoon ae day! —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863
• Not a moment, however, did he neglect any warning from quarter soever, but from peaceful feeder was instantaneously wind-like fleer, his great horns thrown back over his shoulders, and his four legs just touching the ground with elastic hoof, or tucking themselves almost out of sight as he skipped rather than leaped over rock and gully, stone and bush--whatever lay betwixt him and larger room. —  What's Mine's Mine — Complete
• And, said this fleer (who was indeed half wild with fear), that while they were talking together, came the Romans upon them, and saw them; and a band of Romans beat the wood for them when they fled, and she, the fleer, was at point to be taken, and saw two taken indeed, and haled off by the Roman scourers of the wood. —  The House of the Wolfings

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