fleer

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"Durn my boots ef I didn't furgit the password!" cried Nick Peters with his little falsetto laugh, that seemed keyed for a fleer, although it was most graciously modulated now.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Perhaps there was some truth in Betty's fleer, of her never having known any better company than that of the village apothecary.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

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

It was half open, and the moon’s licht danced in on the fleer.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

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