fleer

1. (archaic) To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scornExamples: "LEONATO. Tush, tush, man! never fleer and jest at me: I speak not like a dotard nor a fool, As, under privilege of age, to brag What I have done being young, or what would do, Were I not old."; "[I]n short, sneering and fleering at him in her cold barren way[.]"Synonyms: deride, sneer, mock, gibe, badger, bam, barrack, brockarchaic

2. (archaic) To grin with an air of civility; to leer.Examples: "In the time of popery, before the gospel came amongst us, we went to burials with weeping and wailing, as though there were no God: but since the gospel came unto us, I have heard say, that in some places they go with the corses grinning and flearing, as though they went to a bear-baiting;[…]"Synonyms: fliggerarchaic