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▪ I. flouting, vbl. n.|ˈflaʊtɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. flout; an instance of this.
1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. ii. i. §6. 91 What gybing and flouting would there be. 1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. v. xv. 382 A desperate impudencie, seconded with bloodie floutings, with terrible despightings, [etc.]. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1704) 453 Flouting, and Taunting, are to be censured as vicious Abuses of Speech. 1884Bath Herald 25 Oct. 3/1 The second flouting of the popular will.
2. Comb. † flouting-stock, (a) a butt for flouting, an object of mockery; (b) = flout n. (perh. the use is a blunder ascribed to the Welsh speaker).
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 309 Lesse peraduenture..thou be..made a notable flowting-stocke. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. v. 83 You are wise, and full of gibes, and vlouting-stocks. 1817W. Godwin Mandeville I. 263, I was..a flouting-stock and a make-game..created for no other end than to be the scoff of my fellows.
▪ II. flouting, ppl. a.|ˈflaʊtɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That flouts.
1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 30 b, Insinuating therby in flouting manner, that he might be his Fathers bastard sonne. 1597Fenton Let. 23 May in Harington Nugæ Ant. (1779) II. 233 She would..out with all such ungracious flouting wenches. 1614N. Breton I would & yet cxxv, Then sure should I..Be followed with many a flowting-Iacke. 1727De Foe Hist. Appar. xiii. 329 A flouting atheistic man of wit. 1870Pall Mall G. 23 Nov. 12 Less of..flouting ferocity than is usual in the epic tales of the Scandinavians.
Hence ˈfloutingly adv. in a flouting manner.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Par gaudisserie, in iest, or floutingly. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 55 They floutingly put upon his head a wreath of thornes. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) I. iii. xiv. 228 ‘Goody Palsgrave’ as her Mother floutingly called her. |