Definitions for fleer

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IPA: /flɪər/

Fleer is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in fleer (eeflr).

Definitions for fleer

noun

  1. a fleering look; a jeer or gibe.
  2. a person who flees.

verb (used with object)

  1. to mock or deride.

verb (used without object)

  1. to grin or laugh coarsely or mockingly.

Origin of fleer

1350-1400; Middle English flerien (v.) Scandinavian; compare Norwegian flire a grin

Examples for fleer

Julia turned at the fleer and flung a glance of acute anger at her friend.

Perhaps there was some truth in Betty's fleer, of her never having known any better company than that of the village apothecary.

He is rather inclined to fleer at any pretension to American club life of earlier date.

For, fleer as aliens would, this was the Awakening of the Red Dragon.

However, she brandished her divining brush with the rest, and cut in now and then to keep the fleer with the untiring Nozilwane.

And thereat they did laugh, and fleer, and shout, and there was flashing of tankards and jingling of cups all down the hall.

To flewer or fleer is to smile in that grinning manner which shows all the teeth.

"It is more than men are" she said, fired, as women always are, by a fleer at the sex.

The reader who studies every line should not fleer at him who studies not at all.

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.

Word Value for fleer
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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