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sleer

sleer verb: to mock or jeer.

Verb

sleer (third-person singular simple present sleers, present participle sleering, simple past and past participle sleered)

  1. (obsolete) To mock or jeer.
    • […] for were it possible that any one could bring us Father Adam's girdle and Mother Eve's apron, what laughing — what sleering — what mocking of their homely fashions would there be!1825, The Freethinking Christians' Quarterly Register, volume 2, page 142

Forms of sleer

third-person singular presentsleers
present participlesleering
past participlesleered
pastsleered

Questions about sleer

What does sleer mean?
Sleer means to mock or jeer.
What part of speech is sleer?
Sleer is a verb.
What is the past tense of sleer?
The past tense of sleer is sleered.

Words near sleer in the dictionary

  1. sleepy-dust
  2. sleepyhead
  3. sleepyheads
  4. sleepytime
  5. sleepytimes
  6. sleer
  7. sleered
  8. sleering
  9. sleers
  10. Slees
  11. sleest

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