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fligger en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈflɪɡə/

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To sneer.
    • Then Nature has with beauty, more with scorne, That they must fligger, scoffe, deride, and jeere, Appoynt their servants certaine houres t' appeare. 1628, Nathaniel Whiting, Le Hore di Recreatione: or, The Pleasant Historie of Albino and Bellama:
  2. (obsolete) To grin.
    • 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— 1720, Thomas d'Urfey, “Tom Tinker”, in Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, volume 6, page 267:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
fliggering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fliggered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fliggered Tense=Past lexicographic
fliggers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

scoff · deride (sneer) · smile (grin) · jeer