Word.ws English Dictionary

fleerings

fleerings is the plural of fleering.

Meaning of fleering

Noun

fleering (plural fleerings)

  1. (obsolete) scorn; derision
    • Your private whispers and your broad fleerings.c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679...

Questions about fleerings

What is fleerings the plural of?
Fleerings is the plural of fleering.

Words near fleerings in the dictionary

  1. fleered
  2. fleerer
  3. fleerers
  4. fleering
  5. fleeringly
  6. fleerings
  7. fleers
  8. flees
  9. fleest
  10. fleet
  11. fleet admiral

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fleerings (page history and authors); fleering (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fleerings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fleerings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.