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sleers

sleers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sleer.

Meaning of sleer

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

Questions about sleers

What is sleers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sleers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sleer.

Words near sleers in the dictionary

  1. sleepytime
  2. sleepytimes
  3. sleer
  4. sleered
  5. sleering
  6. sleers
  7. Slees
  8. sleest
  9. sleet
  10. sleetch
  11. sleeted

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