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Fleed vs Fleer - What's the difference?

fleed | fleer |

As nouns the difference between fleed and fleer

is that fleed is the internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard while fleer is one who flees.

As verbs the difference between fleed and fleer

is that fleed is (nonstandard) (flee) while fleer is to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe.

fleed

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(-)
  • The internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard.
  • *1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 134:
  • *:Every Tenterden market day he used to sell fleed cakes from a basket to the carts that went by.

    • Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) (flee)

    • fleer

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably from a Scandinavian source, compare Norwegian bokmål , Jutish Danish flire.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe.
  • * 1599 ,
    • 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.
  • To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
  • * Latimer
    • Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear baiting.

    Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who flees

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