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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fleer
Phonetic Transcription : flɪər



Définition of fleer

Origin :
  • c.1400, perhaps from Scandinavian (cf. dialectal Norwegian flira, dialectal Danish flire "to grin, titter"). Related: Fleered; fleering.
  • noun smirk
Example sentences :
  • To flewer or fleer is to smile in that grinning manner which shows all the teeth.
  • Extract from : « It Might Have Been » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • For, fleer as aliens would, this was the Awakening of the Red Dragon.
  • Extract from : « Mushroom Town » by Oliver Onions
  • "It is more than men are" she said, fired, as women always are, by a fleer at the sex.
  • Extract from : « Gordon Keith » by Thomas Nelson Page
  • The reader who studies every line should not fleer at him who studies not at all.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 » by Various
  • And thereat they did laugh, and fleer, and shout, and there was flashing of tankards and jingling of cups all down the hall.
  • Extract from : « Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall » by Robert S. Hawker
  • Perhaps there was some truth in Betty's fleer, of her never having known any better company than that of the village apothecary.
  • Extract from : « Doctor Cupid » by Rhoda Broughton
  • However, she brandished her divining brush with the rest, and cut in now and then to keep the fleer with the untiring Nozilwane.
  • Extract from : « Curiosities of Superstition » by W. H. Davenport Adams
  • She gave a light laugh that had in it so little mirth, was so little apposite to ridicule, that he did not feel it a fleer.
  • Extract from : « The Storm Centre » by Charles Egbert Craddock
  • Julia turned at the fleer and flung a glance of acute anger at her friend.
  • Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905 » by Various
  • He is rather inclined to fleer at any pretension to American club life of earlier date.
  • Extract from : « Fifth Avenue » by Arthur Bartlett Maurice

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