fleer
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Yes, Abner, but thus soon to yield, Neighbours would fleer, and look behind 'em; Though, with a husband in the field, Perhaps, indeed, I should not mind 'em.
From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Robert Bloomfield
But there, you will, and your sisters will have something to fleer and jeer at then, and your father will purr in my face, and spit and swear behind my back.
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn
At any rate, that strutting chanticleer, with his two meagre wives and one wizened chicken, is a sly side fleer at the tragic aspect of the law of descent.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various
To flewer or fleer is to smile in that grinning manner which shows all the teeth.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
The reader who studies every line should not fleer at him who studies not at all.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
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