fligger

present singular third person fliggers · participle present fliggering · participle past fliggered · past fliggered

1. obsoleteTo sneer.

   Then Nature has with beauty, more with scorne, That they must fligger, scoffe, deride, and jeere, Appoynt their servants certaine houres t' appeare.

   1628, Nathaniel Whiting, Le Hore di Recreatione: or, The Pleasant Historie of Albino and Bellama

   Synonyms: deride

2. obsoleteTo grin.

   I met with a Barber with Razor and Balls, He fligger'd and told me for all my brave alls; He would have a stroke, and his words they were blunt, I could not deny him the use of my—

   1720, Thomas d'Urfey, “Tom Tinker”, in Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, volume 6, page 267

   Synonyms: smile