fligger
English edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
fligger (third-person singular simple present fliggers, present participle fliggering, simple past and past participle fliggered)
- (obsolete) To sneer.
- 1628, Nathaniel Whiting, Le Hore di Recreatione: or, The Pleasant Historie of Albino and Bellama:
- Then Nature has with beauty, more with scorne,
That they must fligger, scoffe, deride, and jeere,
Appoynt their servants certaine houres t' appeare.
- (obsolete) To grin.
- 1720, Thomas d'Urfey, “Tom Tinker”, in Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, volume 6, page 267:
- 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—
Synonyms edit
- (sneer): deride, jeer, scoff; see also Thesaurus:deride
- (grin): smile; see also Thesaurus:to smile