(1) To mock; to gibe; to jest with insolence and contempt.
"Do I, like the female tribe, think it well to fleer and gibe?
-Swift
(2) To leer; to grin with an air of civility.
"How popular and courteous; how they grin and fleer upon every man they meet!
-Burton, On Melancholy
Friday, December 17, 2010
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