Fligger

//ˈflɪɡə// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To sneer. obsolete

    "Then Nature has with beauty, more with scorne, That they must fligger, scoffe, deride, and jeere, Appoynt their servants certaine houres t' appeare."

  2. 2
    To grin. obsolete

    "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—"

Example

More examples

"Then Nature has with beauty, more with scorne, That they must fligger, scoffe, deride, and jeere, Appoynt their servants certaine houres t' appeare."

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