Meanings
plural fleerers
- archaicSomeone who fleers; a grinner or smirker
Democritus, thou ancient fleerer, / How I miss thy laugh
c. 1615–1616, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, “The Nice Valour, or, The Passionate Mad-man”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
Origin
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