Leers vs Fleers - What's the difference?

As a noun leers

is .

(fleer).

(head)

(head)

(leer)

* * ----

(head)

(fleer)

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

(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.

From

(en noun)

one who flees