All fleer synonyms
fleer
F f noun fleer
- mock — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- taunt — to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
- jeer — to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely: Don't jeer unless you can do better.
- scoff — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
- grimace — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- laugh — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- sneer — to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt: They sneered at his pretensions.
- grin — to smile broadly, especially as an indication of pleasure, amusement, or the like.
- smirk — to smile in an affected, smug, or offensively familiar way.
verb fleer
- jiving — swing music or early jazz.
- snipe — any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- jive — swing music or early jazz.
- snigger — If someone sniggers, they laugh quietly in a disrespectful way, for example at something rude or unkind.
- hazing — an aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine, widely dispersed, solid or liquid particles, or both, giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colors.
- curl one's lip — to show contempt, as by raising a corner of the lip
- make a fool of — To cause (someone) to seem foolish.
- ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- send up — an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.
- cartooning — a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
- turn up one's nose — to behave disdainfully towards (something)
- caricatured — Simple past tense and past participle of caricature.
- ragging — a musical composition in ragtime: a piano rag.
- sniff at — show contempt
- twit — to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc., with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at. Synonyms: jeer at, mock, insult, deride.
- jollies — in good spirits; lively; merry: In a moment he was as jolly as ever.