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A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop. A pert fribble of a peer. Thackeray.

Trifling; contemptible.

se, a popular name for a large puffball. -- Frog eater, one who eats frogs; -- a term of contempt applied to a Frenchman by the vulgar class of English. -- Frog fly. (Zoöl.) See Frog hopper. -- Frog hopper (Zoöl.), a small, leaping, hemipterous insect living on plants. The larvæ are inclosed are frothy liquid called…

A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence, or contempt. See Fie.

Measure; dimensions; estimate. The gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt. Burke.

A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall.

Scorn, derision, or contempt. [Prov. Eng.]

A queer old fellow; an old chap; an old woman. [Contemptuous, Slang or Dial.]

To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock. Draw the beasts as I describe them, From their features, while I gibe them. Swift.

A nickname sometimes applied in contempt to a Mexican of the lowest type. [Low, U. S.]

ther habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison.

A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. B. Jonson.

Of hardiness is mother. Shak. They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon.

Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon.

most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton.

Contempt; scorn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The human skin; -- so called in contempt. O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide! Shak.

To condemn or express contempt for by hissing. If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them. Shak. Malcolm. What is the newest grief Ros. That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker. Shak.