fleer
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They sha' na flout and fleer, the feckless queans, the hissies wha'll threep to stan' i' your auld shoon ae day!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
I have heard One of your Council fleer and jeer at him.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
For, fleer as aliens would, this was the Awakening of the Red Dragon.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
He is rather inclined to fleer at any pretension to American club life of earlier date.
From Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice
Then out it speaks the king himsell,85 And aye as he steps in the fleer; Says, "I grant you your life, lady, Because you are of tender year."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various