Pronounced: FA-byoo-list, noun
Note: For some reason, I keep associating this word with ‘magician’ (but that’s not correct).
Yesterday’s word
The word fleer means “a word of look of derision or mockery”
Background
The word is Scandinavian in origin; it is kin to the Norwegian word flire (to giggle). It showed up in Middle English as the verb fleryen (to laugh, grin, or grimace in a coarse manner).
First usage
The noun first appeared in Shakespeare’s Othello (early 1600s)
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