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

One who flouts; a mocker.

With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.

A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick. He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob. Shak.

in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout. To fleer and scorn at our solemnity. Shak.

To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.

To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

A sneer; a flout. [Obs.]

To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at. And if we can not jeer them, we jeer ourselves. B. Jonson.

To flout with contempt.

A flout; a jeer; a gibe; a taunt. [Obs.] Fortherby.

To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology. "Flout 'em and scout 'em." Shak.

blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural. The Norweyan banners flout the sky. Shak.

To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout. When I had at my pleasure taunted her. Shak.