单词 | flurn |
释义 | flurnv. Obsolete exc. dialect. intransitive. To sneer (at). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by facial expression snurtc1440 to look askew1538 scance1611 to fall a lip of contempta1616 flurn1656 sneer1734 to curl the lip1816 snigger1823 1656 R. Fletcher in Ex Otio Negotium To Rdr. sig. A6v And for those abortive births slipp'd from my brain..,give me leave to flurn at them, as the poor excrescencies of Nature. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 72 Flurn, to show contempt by looks, to scorn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < v.1656 |
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