sleer
English
Verb
sleer (third-person singular simple present sleers, present participle sleering, simple past and past participle sleered)
- (obsolete) To mock or jeer.
- 1825, The Freethinking Christians' Quarterly Register (volume 2, page 142)
- […] for were it possible that any one could bring us Father Adam's girdle and Mother Eve's apron, what laughing — what sleering — what mocking of their homely fashions would there be!
- 1825, The Freethinking Christians' Quarterly Register (volume 2, page 142)
See also
- fleer