Flees vs Fleers - What's the difference?
flees | fleers |
(flee)
(label) To run away; to escape.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
(label) To escape from.
(label) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
(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 verbs the difference between flees and fleers
is that flees is (flee) while fleers is (fleer).flees
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“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
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* * English irregular verbs ----fleers
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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.