floutn.¹

Brit.

/flaʊt/, U.S.

/flaʊt/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s floute.

Etymology: < flout v.

1. A mocking speech or action; a piece of mockery, jeer, scoff.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > piece or instance of

mockc1425

scrip1488

derision1535

frump1553

flout1570

scoffery1577

frumpery1582

flouting-stock1593

ludification1623

rision1656

ridicule1710

jab1905

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Siv/2 A Floute, mocke, illusio, fucus.

1572–5 G. Gascoigne Dan Bartholmew Lenuoye iv Remember that our sect Is sure to bee with floutes alwayes infect.

1678 S. Butler Heroical Epist. to his Lady in Hudibras: Third Pt. 262 She..read it out, With many a smile, and learing flout.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. xiv The Flouts and indifferent Reception I have met with.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 23 Blinking like an owl in daylight, when pestered by the flouts and peckings of mischievous birds.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 81 Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn By dressing it in rags?

†2. An object of flouting or mockery. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule

hethinga1340

japing-stickc1380

laughing stock?1518

mocking-stock1526

laughing game1530

jesting-stock1535

mockage1535

derision1539

sporting stocka1556

game1562

May game1569

scoffing-stock1571

playing stock1579

make-play1592

flouting-stock1593

sport1598

bauchle1600

jest1606

butt1607

make-sport1611

mocking1611

mirtha1616

laughing stakea1630

scoff1640

gaud1650

blota1657

make-mirth1656

ridicule1678

flout1708

sturgeon1708

laugh1710

ludibry1722

jestee1760

make-game1762

joke1791

laughee1808

laughing post1810

target1842

jest-word1843

Aunt Sally1859

monument1866

punchline1978

1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin 52 Howlet will be the Word, a standing Jest, The Flout of Boys, and Mirth of Every Feast.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† floutn.²

Obsolete. rare.

A truss (of straw.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw > specific quantity of

truss1483

floutc1500

c1500 King & Hermit in M. M. Furrow Ten 15th-cent. Comic Poems (1985) 261 Besyde my bed þou must goo And take vp a slouȝte of strawe Als softly as þou may.

1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

† floutn.³

Etymology: ? representing Old English *flówet , < flówan to flow v.

Obsolete.

A watercourse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel

runeOE

sitchOE

pipeOE

sichetc1133

guttera1300

siket1300

sikec1330

watergate1368

gole?a1400

gotea1400

flout14..

aa1430

trough1513

guta1552

race1570

lode1572

canala1576

ditch1589

trink1592

leam1601

dike1616

runlet1630

stell1651

nullah1656

course1665

drain1700

lade1706

droke1772

regimen1797

draught1807

adit1808

sluit1818

thalweg1831

runway1874

14.. in MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48 f. 106 (Halliw.) And at a window cast him owt, Riȝt into Temse flowt.

1583 Inquisition before Commissioners of Sewers for County of Lincoln (1851) One sewer in Scotterings at the ould flout shall be sufficiently diked.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

floutv.

Brit.

/flaʊt/, U.S.

/flaʊt/

Forms: Also 1500s floute, 1500s–1600s flowte.

Etymology: First recorded in 16th cent.; possibly special use (preserved in some dialect) of floute , Middle English form of flute v. to play on the flute. Compare a similar development of sense in Dutch fluiten to play the flute, to mock, deride.

a. transitive. To mock, jeer, insult; to express contempt for, either in word or action. Also to flout (a person) out of (something).

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)]

teleeOE

laughOE

bismerc1000

heascenc1000

hethec1175

scornc1175

hokera1225

betell?c1225

scorn?c1225

forhushc1275

to make scorn at, toc1320

boba1382

bemow1388

lakea1400

bobby14..

triflea1450

japec1450

mock?c1450

mowc1485

to make (a) mock at?a1500

to make mocks at?a1500

scrip?a1513

illude1516

delude1526

deride1530

louta1547

to toy with ——1549–62

flout1551

skirp1568

knack1570

to fart against1574

frump1577

bourd1593

geck?a1600

scout1605

subsannate1606

railly1612

explode1618

subsannea1620

dor1655

monkeya1658

to make an ass of (someone)1680

ridicule1680

banter1682

to run one's rig upon1735

fun1811

to get the run upon1843

play1891

to poke mullock at1901

razz1918

flaunt1923

to get (or give) the razoo1926

to bust (a person's) chops1953

wolf1966

pimp1968

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > put off or drive out of by

flout1551

to frump off1577

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (transitive)]

heascenc1000

gabc1225

tita1400

knackc1425

scoff1530

flout1551

taunt1560

gird1573

beflout1574

scoff1578

gibe1582

flirt1593

gleek1593

to geck at1603

to gall ata1616

jeera1616

gorea1632

jest1721

fleer1732

chi-hike1874

chip1898

to sling off (at)1911

jive1928

sound1958

wolf1966

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (transitive)] > drive into or out of by

flout1551

jeera1661

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Aiii In moste spiteful maner mockynge..and flowtynge them.

1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. D2^v Now I will flout her pouerty.

1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. O.T. i. 72 Yet cannot they al flout Noah out of his faith.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 49 Where the Norweyan Banners flowt the Skie.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick ii. iv. 329 So the Man was flouted on all Hands.

1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel ii. i. 35 The gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxii. 272 The genuine and only Jarley..flouted by beadles.

1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. ii. ii. 80 One town grew jealous of another..Granada flouted Loga.

†b. To quote or recite with sarcastic purpose.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > ridicule caustically or ironically [verb (transitive)] > make sarcastic or ironic use of

flout1600

ironize1857

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > assail with sarcasm [verb (transitive)]

touch1526

quip1572

quib1580

flout1600

sarcasmatize1716

wisecrack1946

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 270 Ere you flowt old ends any further, examine your conscience.

2. intransitive. To behave with disdain or contumely, to mock, jeer, scoff; to express contempt either by action or speech. Also dialect to scold. Const. at; whence in indirect passive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)]

skirpc1175

to make it quainta1393

flout1575

to wipe a person's nose1577

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (intransitive)]

scorp1535

frump1566

flout1575

to game at1623

to run upon ——1833

1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia B j b What drake nosed driuell, begin you to floute.

1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. ii. 31 It never came into our thoughts..to flout, in so bold a manner.

1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity ii. § 1. 19 Some are apt to flout at it as ridiculous.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 166 But I have the good Fortune not to be flouted at.

1845 R. Browning Garden Fancies in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics i. vi Ah, you may flout and turn up your faces.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. iv. 79 The women pointed and flouted at her.

3. [Perhaps a distinct word.] To ruffle (a bird's feathers).

ΘΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [verb (transitive)] > ruffle or disorder

ruffle1528

trachlec1550

touta1568

displot1600

tuffle1777

tiffle1811

ruff1819

flout1875

1875 Mayne Reid in Chambers's Jrnl. 7 Aug. 500 Not enough, breeze..to flout the long feathers in the tail of the..bird.

Derivatives

ˈflouted adj.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective]

despect1447

contemned1552

unesteemeda1557

mongrela1594

cheap1597

disdained1598

scorned1598

despised1599

dog cheap1606

dishonourable1611

disprizeda1616

jadeda1616

disesteemed1618

misprized1702

disparaged1802

unappreciated1828

vilipended1836

flouted1859

mal vu1904

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective]

bemockeda1616

flirteda1625

fleered1632

derided1690

ridiculed1710

flouted1859

1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 188 Go now, to thankless jeopardy Expose thee, flouted [wight].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1570

n.²c1500

n.³14..

v.1551

单词	flout
释义	floutn.¹ Brit. /flaʊt/, U.S. /flaʊt/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s floute. Etymology: < flout v. 1. A mocking speech or action; a piece of mockery, jeer, scoff. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > piece or instance of mockc1425 scrip1488 derision1535 frump1553 flout1570 scoffery1577 frumpery1582 flouting-stock1593 ludification1623 rision1656 ridicule1710 jab1905 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Siv/2 A Floute, mocke, illusio, fucus. 1572–5 G. Gascoigne Dan Bartholmew Lenuoye iv Remember that our sect Is sure to bee with floutes alwayes infect. 1678 S. Butler Heroical Epist. to his Lady in Hudibras: Third Pt. 262 She..read it out, With many a smile, and learing flout. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. xiv The Flouts and indifferent Reception I have met with. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 23 Blinking like an owl in daylight, when pestered by the flouts and peckings of mischievous birds. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 81 Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn By dressing it in rags? †2. An object of flouting or mockery. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule hethinga1340 japing-stickc1380 laughing stock?1518 mocking-stock1526 laughing game1530 jesting-stock1535 mockage1535 derision1539 sporting stocka1556 game1562 May game1569 scoffing-stock1571 playing stock1579 make-play1592 flouting-stock1593 sport1598 bauchle1600 jest1606 butt1607 make-sport1611 mocking1611 mirtha1616 laughing stakea1630 scoff1640 gaud1650 blota1657 make-mirth1656 ridicule1678 flout1708 sturgeon1708 laugh1710 ludibry1722 jestee1760 make-game1762 joke1791 laughee1808 laughing post1810 target1842 jest-word1843 Aunt Sally1859 monument1866 punchline1978 1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin 52 Howlet will be the Word, a standing Jest, The Flout of Boys, and Mirth of Every Feast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † floutn.² Obsolete. rare. A truss (of straw.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw > specific quantity of truss1483 floutc1500 c1500 King & Hermit in M. M. Furrow Ten 15th-cent. Comic Poems (1985) 261 Besyde my bed þou must goo And take vp a slouȝte of strawe Als softly as þou may. 1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † floutn.³ Etymology: ? representing Old English flówet , < flówan* to flow v. Obsolete. A watercourse. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel runeOE sitchOE pipeOE sichetc1133 guttera1300 siket1300 sikec1330 watergate1368 gole?a1400 gotea1400 flout14.. aa1430 trough1513 guta1552 race1570 lode1572 canala1576 ditch1589 trink1592 leam1601 dike1616 runlet1630 stell1651 nullah1656 course1665 drain1700 lade1706 droke1772 regimen1797 draught1807 adit1808 sluit1818 thalweg1831 runway1874 14.. in MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48 f. 106 (Halliw.) And at a window cast him owt, Riȝt into Temse flowt. 1583 Inquisition before Commissioners of Sewers for County of Lincoln (1851) One sewer in Scotterings at the ould flout shall be sufficiently diked. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). floutv. Brit. /flaʊt/, U.S. /flaʊt/ Forms: Also 1500s floute, 1500s–1600s flowte. Etymology: First recorded in 16th cent.; possibly special use (preserved in some dialect) of floute , Middle English form of flute v. to play on the flute. Compare a similar development of sense in Dutch fluiten to play the flute, to mock, deride. 1. a. transitive. To mock, jeer, insult; to express contempt for, either in word or action. Also to flout (a person) out of (something). ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] teleeOE laughOE bismerc1000 heascenc1000 hethec1175 scornc1175 hokera1225 betell?c1225 scorn?c1225 forhushc1275 to make scorn at, toc1320 boba1382 bemow1388 lakea1400 bobby14.. triflea1450 japec1450 mock?c1450 mowc1485 to make (a) mock at?a1500 to make mocks at?a1500 scrip?a1513 illude1516 delude1526 deride1530 louta1547 to toy with ——1549–62 flout1551 skirp1568 knack1570 to fart against1574 frump1577 bourd1593 geck?a1600 scout1605 subsannate1606 railly1612 explode1618 subsannea1620 dor1655 monkeya1658 to make an ass of (someone)1680 ridicule1680 banter1682 to run one's rig upon1735 fun1811 to get the run upon1843 play1891 to poke mullock at1901 razz1918 flaunt1923 to get (or give) the razoo1926 to bust (a person's) chops1953 wolf1966 pimp1968 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > put off or drive out of by flout1551 to frump off1577 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (transitive)] heascenc1000 gabc1225 tita1400 knackc1425 scoff1530 flout1551 taunt1560 gird1573 beflout1574 scoff1578 gibe1582 flirt1593 gleek1593 to geck at1603 to gall ata1616 jeera1616 gorea1632 jest1721 fleer1732 chi-hike1874 chip1898 chip1898 to sling off (at)1911 jive1928 sound1958 wolf1966 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (transitive)] > drive into or out of by flout1551 jeera1661 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Aiii In moste spiteful maner mockynge..and flowtynge them. 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. D2^v Now I will flout her pouerty. 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. O.T. i. 72 Yet cannot they al flout Noah out of his faith. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 49 Where the Norweyan Banners flowt the Skie. View more context for this quotation 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick ii. iv. 329 So the Man was flouted on all Hands. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel ii. i. 35 The gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxii. 272 The genuine and only Jarley..flouted by beadles. 1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. ii. ii. 80 One town grew jealous of another..Granada flouted Loga. †b. To quote or recite with sarcastic purpose. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > ridicule caustically or ironically [verb (transitive)] > make sarcastic or ironic use of flout1600 ironize1857 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > assail with sarcasm [verb (transitive)] touch1526 quip1572 quib1580 flout1600 sarcasmatize1716 wisecrack1946 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 270 Ere you flowt old ends any further, examine your conscience. View more context for this quotation 2. intransitive. To behave with disdain or contumely, to mock, jeer, scoff; to express contempt either by action or speech. Also dialect to scold. Const. at; whence in indirect passive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] skirpc1175 to make it quainta1393 flout1575 to wipe a person's nose1577 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (intransitive)] scorp1535 frump1566 flout1575 to game at1623 to run upon ——1833 1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia B j b What drake nosed driuell, begin you to floute. 1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. ii. 31 It never came into our thoughts..to flout, in so bold a manner. 1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity ii. § 1. 19 Some are apt to flout at it as ridiculous. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 166 But I have the good Fortune not to be flouted at. 1845 R. Browning Garden Fancies in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics i. vi Ah, you may flout and turn up your faces. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. iv. 79 The women pointed and flouted at her. 3. [Perhaps a distinct word.] To ruffle (a bird's feathers). ΘΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [verb (transitive)] > ruffle or disorder ruffle1528 trachlec1550 touta1568 displot1600 tuffle1777 tiffle1811 ruff1819 flout1875 1875 Mayne Reid in Chambers's Jrnl. 7 Aug. 500 Not enough, breeze..to flout the long feathers in the tail of the..bird. Derivatives ˈflouted adj. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] despect1447 contemned1552 unesteemeda1557 mongrela1594 cheap1597 disdained1598 scorned1598 despised1599 dog cheap1606 dishonourable1611 disprizeda1616 jadeda1616 disesteemed1618 misprized1702 disparaged1802 unappreciated1828 vilipended1836 flouted1859 mal vu1904 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective] bemockeda1616 flirteda1625 fleered1632 derided1690 ridiculed1710 flouted1859 1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 188 Go now, to thankless jeopardy Expose thee, flouted [wight]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1570n.²c1500n.³14..v.1551
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floutv.

Derivatives

floutn.¹

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