Fleer

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn

   “LEONATO. Tush, tush, man! never fleer and jest at me: I speak not like a dotard nor a fool, As, under privilege of age, to brag What I have done being young, or what would do, Were I not old.”

2. fiil To grin with an air of civility; to leer.

   “In the time of popery, before the gospel came amongst us, we went to burials with weeping and wailing, as though there were no God: but since the gospel came unto us, I have heard say, that in some places they go with the corses grinning and flearing, as though they went to a bear-baiting;[…]”

3. isim Mockery; derision.

   “[…] And flattery tipt with nauseous fleer, And guilty shame, and servile fear, Envy, and cruelty, and pride, Will in your tainted heart preside.”

4. isim One who flees.

   “Which fear of the fleers away was no less ignominious, then if[…]they had turned their backs to the enemie.”

5. özel isim A surname.