Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To smirk or laugh in contempt or derision.
- n. A taunting, scoffing, or derisive look or gibe.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To grin in mockery; make a wry face in contempt; hence, to gibe; sneer: as, to fleer and flout.
- To grin with an air of civility; leer.
- To mock; jeer at.
- n. Derision or mockery, expressed by words or looks.
- n. A grin of civility; a leer.
- n. One who flees.
- n. A dialectal (Scotch) variant of floor.
Wiktionary
- v. To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe.
- n. one who flees
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who flees.
- To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe.
- obsolete To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
- v. To mock; to flout at.
- n. A word or look of derision or mockery.
- n. obsolete A grin of civility; a leer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
- n. contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words
- v. to smirk contemptuously
Etymologies
- From flee + -er (Wiktionary)
- Middle English flerien, of Scandinavian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The communities both in North and South Carolina, law enforcement, have come together in this case, and right now, we are being aided by the United States Marine Corps, helicopters from Cherry Point, and also the North Carolina highway patrol, with special heat-seeking devices known as fleer units, and we have ground teams ready that are and on the ground ready to assist in the location, hopefully and prayerfully of Miss Donovan.”
“There is another word, "fleer," which sounds like a portmanteau of flinch and sneer but isn't.”
“This affords my offspring frequent opportunities to fleer and jape at me as I cower in my seat at the movie theater, or press myself back against the couch while watching a DVD at home.”
“Sims had a derisive smile, a fleer, and it grew meaner by the second.”
“Caravanserai and the workmen of the dyery, he was certified of the vileness of Abu Kir; so he upbraided him with flout and fleer and said to his guards, “Take him and parade him about the city and the market-streets; then set him in a sack and cast him into the sea.””
“Democritus; one jester to flout at another, one fool to fleer at another: a great stentorian Democritus, as big as that Rhodian”
“Betty, with a very saucy fleer, said to Shorey, There would be a trial of skill about that she fancied.”
“Maria, a fleer at mere ponderosity, skipped and whisked from left to right with fay-like airiness of foot until a thrill of delight went through the camp.”
“Thank you! barry bonds rookie card fleer hank aaron sportcards topps autograph cards kurt angle larry fritsch bboc private stock samlekort venom benchwarmer troy hudson screwdown pricing hot prospects wayne gretzky baseball benchwarmer giochi online gta copy homemakers - 2006-08-19 07: 51: 34”
“The hazy light that fell through the floor-toceiling windows onto the shimmering blue stone fleer offered little cheer and less warmth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fleer’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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said without sound
facial expressions, gestures, postures or attitudes that communicate specific meanings
moue, glower, simper, fleer, lour, agog, distasture, volage, unction, inkhorn, obsequious, squinny and 2 more...
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Funny Laughter Words
Words that speak humor
humor, laugh, funny, laughter, hilarity, guffaw, chortle, giggle, burst, hilarious, happy, chuckle and 66 more...
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Glancing Blows
glim, glink, glisk, glunch, twire, glint, asquint, fleer, gleek, keek, skelly, flick and 8 more...
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work these into conversation
Challenge!
legerdemain, polysemic, rupestrian, callipygian, oscitancy, numen, lucubration, asperity, amalgam, apposite, wastrel, eleemosynary and 208 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
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aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
pinguid, triffid, calque, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 223 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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Actual and Spectulative Sburb Classes
A list of all known Heroic Classes available to players of the game Sburb within the Homestuck universe, as well as any other words I can think of which would theoretically adhere to the known guid...
heir, seer, knight, witch, maid, page, thief, mage, rogue, sylph, prince, bard and 116 more...
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pixistix's Words
cumquat, circumlocution, panoply, propinquity, contumely, quietus, fardel, tmesis, tipsy, giddy, trudge, vortex and 211 more...
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man From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act I Scene III, Casca speaking:
"You speak to Casca, and to such a man
That is no fleering telltale". Jul 3, 2010
beatricks I added it for the meaning "to grin or laugh coarsely or mockingly, to mock or deride," not the prosaic "flee-er." Dec 6, 2007