fleer

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /flɪə/    美 /flɪə/|/flɪɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Mockery; derision. archaic,uncountable
    — […] And flattery tipt with nauseous fleer, And guilty shame, and servile fear, Envy, and cruelty, and pride, Will in your tainted heart preside.
  2. One who flees.
    — Which fear of the fleers away was no less ignominious, then if[…]they had turned their backs to the enemie.
动词 v.
  1. To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn archaic
    — 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. To grin with an air of civility; to leer. archaic
    — 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;[…]

词形变化

fleers present,singular,third-person fleering participle,present fleered participle,past fleered past fleers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
fleerer

词源

词源 1
Possibly from a Scandinavian source, compare Norwegian bokmål flire (“to giggle”), Jutish Danish flire.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English flee
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English fleer
From flee + -er.
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