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▪ I. fleering, vbl. n.|ˈflɪərɪŋ|
[f. fleer v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. fleer.
1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 962/2 Haue they neuer so fayre a flering at the first face: yet..they bee..farre woorse than noughte. 1570T. Norton in Udall's Royster D. (1847) p. xli, Their fleering..their whisperings, shewed their hartes. 1669Penn No Cross xvii. §5 What Laughing, what Fleering, what Mocking of their homely Fashion would there be? 1827Macaulay Country Clergym. Trip vi, No fleering! no distance! no scorn! 1892G. S. Layard C. Keene viii. 176 He found little or no pleasure in..the fleering or flouting at a fellow-creature.
fig.1840Browning Sordello i. 277 He Partook the poppy's red effrontery, Till Autumn spoiled their fleering quite with rain.
▪ II. fleering, ppl. a.|ˈflɪərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That fleers; † grinning, grimacing; † smiling obsequiously; laughing coarsely or scornfully.
a1400Morte Arth. 1088 Flatt mowthede as a fluke, with fleryande lyppys. Ibid. 2779 Thow ffleryande wryche! c1450Holland Howlat lxiv. 820 In come twa flyrand fulis with a fonde fair. a1529Skelton Poems agst. Garnesche 152 Fleriing, flatyryng, fals, and fykkelle. 1576Fleming Caius' Eng. Dogges (1880) 37 This dogge exceedeth all other in..his leering and fleering lookes. 1608R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Giglot, strumpet, a fliering wench. 1673Dryden Amboyna i. Wks. 1883 V. 18, I do not like these fleering Dutchmen, they overact their kindness. a1712W. King Hold Fast Below 19 Says then the fleering spark, with courteous grin..‘Nothing more easy’. 1833Macaulay Walpole's Lett. Ess. 1854 I. 272 His tone was light and fleering. 1879Howells L. Aroostook (1883) II. 26 His fleering, drunken laugh. 1890H. M. Stanley Darkest Africa II. 402 Jeering youths and fleering girls.
Hence ˈfleeringly adv., in a fleering manner.
c1613Rowlands Paire of Spy-Knaves 3 A purblinde Momus fleeringly will looke, And spie no knaue but's selfe in all the Booke. 1728Morgan Algiers I. vi. 189 The Jerbin..had looked fleeringly all the Time. 1887Stevenson Merry Men iv, He saw and recognized us with a toss of one hand fleeringly above his head. |