Freer vs Fleer - What's the difference?
freer | fleer |
To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe.
* 1599 ,
To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
* Latimer
As nouns the difference between freer and fleer
is that freer is one who frees while fleer is one who flees.As an adjective freer
is (free).As a verb fleer is
to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe.fleer
English
Etymology 1
Probably from a Scandinavian source, compare Norwegian bokmål , Jutish Danish flire.Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear baiting.