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Fleer vs Jeer - What's the difference?

fleer | jeer |

As verbs the difference between fleer and jeer

is that fleer is to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe while jeer is to utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.

As nouns the difference between fleer and jeer

is that fleer is one who flees while jeer is a railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery or jeer can be (nautical) a gear; a tackle.

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

    • Anagrams

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    jeer

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps a corruption of ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.
  • * 1711 , , The Fable of Midas, in The Works of Jonathan Swift , D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5,
    • Midas, exposed to all their jeers , Had lost his art, and kept his ears.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
  • * ,
    • But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.}}
  • (archaic) To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt; to flout.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • And if we cannot jeer' them, we ' jeer ourselves.
    Synonyms
    * (to utter sarcastic remarks) scoff, sneer * (to treat with scoffs) deride, flout, gibe, mock, ridicule

    Etymology 2

    Compare (gear).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A gear; a tackle.
  • (nautical, in the plural) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
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    • Derived terms
    * jeer capstan