fleering
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]fleering
- present participle and gerund of fleer
Noun
[edit]fleering (plural fleerings)
- (obsolete) scorn; derision
- c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
- Your private whispers and your broad fleerings.