Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fleer
Participle: fleered
Gerund: fleering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | fleer |
| you | fleer |
| he;she;it | fleers |
| we | fleer |
| you | fleer |
| they | fleer |
Perfect
| I | have fleered |
| you | have fleered |
| he;she;it | has fleered |
| we | have fleered |
| you | have fleered |
| they | have fleered |
Past
| I | fleered |
| you | fleered |
| he;she;it | fleered |
| we | fleered |
| you | fleered |
| they | fleered |
Pluperfect
| I | had fleered |
| you | had fleered |
| he;she;it | had fleered |
| we | had fleered |
| you | had fleered |
| they | had fleered |
Future
| I | will fleer |
| you | will fleer |
| he;she;it | will fleer |
| we | will fleer |
| you | will fleer |
| they | will fleer |
Future Perfect
| I | will have fleered |
| you | will have fleered |
| he;she;it | will have fleered |
| we | will have fleered |
| you | will have fleered |
| they | will have fleered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fleer |
| you | fleer |
| he;she;it | fleer |
| we | fleer |
| you | fleer |
| they | fleer |
Perfect
| I | have fleered |
| you | have fleered |
| he;she;it | have fleered |
| we | have fleered |
| you | have fleered |
| they | have fleered |
Imperfect
| I | fleered |
| you | fleered |
| he;she;it | fleered |
| we | fleered |
| you | fleered |
| they | fleered |
Pluperfect
| I | had fleered |
| you | had fleered |
| he;she;it | had fleered |
| we | had fleered |
| you | had fleered |
| they | had fleered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fleer |
| you | would fleer |
| he;she;it | would fleer |
| we | would fleer |
| you | would fleer |
| they | would fleer |
Perfect
| I | would have fleered |
| you | would have fleered |
| he;she;it | would have fleered |
| we | would have fleered |
| you | would have fleered |
| they | would have fleered |
Imperative
| you | fleer |
| we | Let's fleer |
| you | fleer |
Verbs conjugated like 'fleer'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fleer'
cleer,
flear,
flee,
fleet,
flier,
flyer,
leer,
affeer,
alter,
beer,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to harshly mock; to treat with contempt
- badger, bam, barrack, brock, bullyrag, chiack, deride, fligger, flite, geck, heckle, hound, jeer, nip, poke borack
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1400, perhaps from Scand. (cf. dial. Norw. flira, dial. Dan. flire "to grin, titter").
2. Possibly from a Scandinavian source, compare Norwegian bokmål flire (“to giggle”), Jutish Danish flire.
Sample Sentences
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LEONATO. Tush, tush, man! never fleer and jest at me:
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I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
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As, under privilege of age, to brag
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What I have done being young, or what would do,
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Were I not old. [1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, scene 1:]
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[…] he that writes a Play exposes himself without any Advantage to a parcel of fleering Criticks, who wonder at any Man for attempting so difficult a Business, and are only disappointed when he succeeds in’t. [1705, William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston, “Preface”, in The Lawyer’s Fortune, or, Love in a Hollow Tree:]
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[I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way[.] [1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History:]
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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;[…] [1552, Hugh Latimer, The Fifth Sermon Preached on the Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Trinity, 1552; republished in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, volume 2, London: James Duncan, 1824, page 212:]