Fleered vs Fleeced - What's the difference?
fleered | fleeced |
(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
(fleece)
(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
(uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
(countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
(countable) An insulating wooly jacket
(roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
to con or trick someone out of money
to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep)
As verbs the difference between fleered and fleeced
is that fleered is past tense of fleer while fleeced is past tense of fleece.fleered
English
Verb
(head)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.