FLEER

Definition: FLEER

FLEER

1. To grin with an air of civility; to leer.

2. To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout.

Noun

1. One who flees.

Transitive verb

1. To mock; to flout at.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FLEER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Disrespect

Have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn; (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.

Ridicule

Verb: ridicule, deride, mock, taunt; laugh in one's sleeve; tease, badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze; tehee; fleer; show up.

Crosswords: FLEER

Books

• Baseball Cards (50 Genuine Topps Donrus and Fleer Up to 6 Years Old) (reference)

• Baseball Cards: Catalog and Price Guide of Topps, Bowman, Donruss, Fleer, Leaf, O-Pee-Cee, Score, and Upper Deck 1993 (reference)

• Catalog & price guide of Topps, Donruss, Fleer, and Sportflics baseball cards (reference)

• Fritz Fleer (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

tallje (banter, derision, dig, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jesting, jibe, joke, mock, mockery, pleasantry, quiz, ridicule, satire, scoff, sneer, snook, Snoot, spoof, sport, taunt, twit), tall (banter, deride, jeer, make fun of, mock, ridicule, scoff, taunt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلمة ساخرة, ‏نظرة ساخرة (sneer), ‏سخر (befool, chip, debunk, deride, guy, jape, jeer, kid, lampoon, laugh at, make a game of, make fun of, mimic, mock, monkey, override, persiflage, pillory, poke fun, pooh pooh, quip, quiz, rally, rib, ridicule, satirize, scoff, send up, smile, snap, sneer, snigger, taunt, tee-hee, twit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усмихвам се презрително, надсмивам се (flout, jape, jeer, rail), беглец (breakaway, escapee, fugitive, hideaway, hideout, outlaw, runaway). (various references)

Czech

vysmívat se (deride, laugh at, scoff, sneer). (various references)

French

regard de mépris, mépriser (flout), méprise (flout). (various references)

German

Spott (derision, derisiveness, gibe, jeer, jibe, mockery, ridicule, sarcasm, scoff, sneer, taunt). (various references)

Greek 

περιγελώσ (laughingstock, ridicule), χλευάζω (deride, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, mock, pish, rail, scoff, sneer, taunt). (various references)

Hungarian

kigúnyol (deride, jeer, joke, lampoon, ridicule, satirize, taunt, to deride, to flout, to gibe, to jibe, to pan, to rally, to razz, to ridicule, to scorch, to scorn, to twit), gúnyos fintor. (various references)

Italian

fare beffe, sogghigno (grin, sneer), ghigno (grin, snigger). (various references)

Pig Latin

eerflay.(various references)

Portuguese

fugitivo (fleeting, fugitive, runagate, runaway), fazer pouco de (bob, gibe, jeer, jibe, make little of, minimize, mock, quiz, tease), fazer chacota, zombaria (chaff, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jibe, mock, mockery, persiflage, ragging, raillery, ridicule, scoff, slyness, sneer, sport), rir-se de (jeer, josh, laugh off), escarnecer (deride, engirdle, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jeer at, jibe, laugh, make fun of, mock, scoff), escárnio (derision, fling, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jibe, mock, mockery, ridicule, scoff, sneer, taunt). (various references)

Romanian

zâmbi dispreţuitor, vorba de batjocurã, râde batjocoritor, privire batjocoritoare. (various references)

Russian 

презрительный взгляд, презрительно улыбаться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podsmevati se, begunac (fugitive, refugee, runaway). (various references)

Spanish

dar de (back on to, bestow, tell off, tender, touch), dado (cubes, dice, die, freewill, geranium, given, gratuity, jaw vice, laid, landed, leaded, taken, treat). (various references)

Swedish

flin (grin, smirk, sneer), hånleende (sneer), hånle (sneer). (various references)

Ukrainian

насміхатися (deride, gibe, jibe, quiz, sneer), насмішка (gird, jibe, mockery, quiz), презирливий погляд. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái nhìn chế nhạo câu nói nhạo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "FLEER": fleered, fleering, fleeringly, fleers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"FLEER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feer, flauer, Flear, fleart, fleed, fleem, fleep, fleery, Fleetrak, Flegere, flere, flexer, fluer, fluger, gleer, Pfleger. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: refel.

-1 letter: feel, fere, flee, free, leer, reef, reel.

-2 letters: eel, elf, ere, fee, fer, lee, ree, ref.

-3 letters: ef, el, er, re.

+1 letter: feeler, feller, ferlie, ferrel, ferule, fleers, freely, fueler, lefter, liefer, refeel, refell, refels, refelt, refile, reflet, reflew, reflex, refuel, relief, telfer.

+2 letters: deerfly, defiler, febrile, federal, feebler, feelers, fellers, ferlies, ferrels, ferrule, fertile, ferulae, feruled, ferules, fielder, filaree, fleecer, fleered, fleeter, flenser, flesher, flexure, foreleg, freckle, fresnel, fuelers, fueller, herself, leafier, prefile, prelife, refeels, refiled, refiles, reflate, reflect, reflets, reflies, refuels, reliefs, telfers, welfare.