flurnv.
/fləːn/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
intransitive. To sneer (at).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by facial expression
snurtc1440
to look askew1538
scance1611
to fall a lip of contempta1616
flurn1656
sneer1734
to curl the lip1816
snigger1823
1656 R. Fletcher in Ex Otio Negotium To Rdr. sig. A6v And for those abortive births slipp'd from my brain..,give me leave to flurn at them, as the poor excrescencies of Nature.
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 72 Flurn, to show contempt by looks, to scorn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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- make a pitch
- make a place too hot for
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- make a play for
- make a point
- make a point of
- make a point to
- make a pool
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