FLOUT

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To mock or insult; to treat with contempt. Phillida flouts me. Walton. Three gaudy standarts lout the pale blue sky. Byron.

2.
v.

To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

3.
n.

A mock; an insult. Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn. Tennyson.


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