sneern.

Brit.

/snɪə/, U.S.

/snɪ(ə)r/

Forms: Also 1700s snear.

Etymology: < sneer v. Compare North Frisian sneer a scornful remark.

a. An act of sneering; a look or expression implying derision, contempt, or scorn; a disdainful or scornful remark or utterance, esp. one of a covert or indirect nature.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > by facial expression > instance of

rhinoceros nose1555

frump1590

fleera1616

rhinocerot's nose1616

sneer1706

curl of the lip1814

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 107 He is applauded with a Sneer.

1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 251 He looks upon Atterbury's Complement as a Snear.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iii. 50 A sneer at my understanding.

1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris (ed. 2) Pref. p. xvii By making this confession I shall incur the sneers of those who have more prepossessions than scruples.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 113 Halifax..answered with a sneer that there was no danger.

1879 H. George Progress & Poverty (1881) ii. iii. 121 Amid the scoffs..and the sneers that stab like knives.

b. Without article: Sneering, scorn.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun]

scornc1175

scarec1275

disdainc1290

forhoghta1300

despite1340

unworthhead1340

unworthness1340

despising1382

byscorn1387

contempta1393

daina1400

dedignationc1400

vilityc1430

despisec1440

contemption1467

lightliness1479

despection1482

misprisement1483

misprizing1485

contemnment1502

fastidie1536

misprize1590

misprision1592

sdeign1595

misprisal1596

despisement1603

disesteem1603

disestimation1619

despiciency1623

despect1624

disopinion1625

under-opinion1629

despisal1650

parvipension1675

sneer1791

misesteem1832

despication1837

1791 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) 396 He speaks even of those who are opposed to his government..without either sneer or acrimony.

1841 in Leic. Gloss. (1881) 246 He could not bear To see her treated with such scorn and sneer.

2. Scottish. A snort.Jamieson (1825) also gives ‘the act of inhalation or inspiration by the nostrils’; ‘the act of a horse, when colded, in throwing the mucus from his nostrils’; ‘the hiss of an adder’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > grunt or snort

snorec1330

grunt?1615

gruntlea1689

sneer17..

snort1808

snork1814

17.. Lochmaben Harper in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 18/1 When she came to the harper's door, There she gave mony a nicher and sneer.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sneerv.

Brit.

/snɪə/, U.S.

/snɪ(ə)r/

Forms: Also 1600s sneare, 1600s–1700s snear.

Etymology: probably of imitative origin. The relation to North Frisian (Sylt) sneere to scorn, is not clear. Apparent examples of snere, snered, and snering occur about 1300 in the E.E. Psalter ii. 4, xxxiv. 16, lxxviii. 4, and lxxix. 7, as renderings of Latin irridebit, deriserunt, and derisus; but two of the manuscripts have variants swere, swered, swering. The translator was evidently influenced by the Old English glosses bismerað, bismeradon, bismerung, and it is very doubtful whether he was using a word which was really known to him.

a. intransitive. Of a horse: To snort. Now dialect †Also transitive, to send out with snorts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > sound made by horse > [verb (intransitive)] > snort

snorec1400

snortc1405

sneer1553

1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados vii. v. 101 With twa sterne stedis..At thair neis thyrles the fyre fast furth snering out.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. 12 If..you doe now and then spirte a little Vineger into his nostrels,..it will both make him sneare and neese.

1814 R. Henderson Treat. Breeding Swine in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1115 The colt..scampered off sneering, with his tail on his ‘riggin’.

1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) (at cited word) If a horse sneers efter he coughs he's nut brokken windit.

b. Scottish. Of an animal: To make a twitching movement with the nose.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > twitch or use the nose

muzzle1490

nuzzle1603

sneer1844

nuddle1898

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 447 On the extrusion of the calf, the first symptom it shews of life is a few gasps.., and then it opens its eyes, and tries to shake its head, and sneer with its nose.

2. To smile scornfully or contemptuously; to express scorn, derision, or disparagement in this way; to speak or write in a manner suggestive or expressive of contempt or disparagement:

a. Const. at a person or thing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by facial expression

sneer1680

1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 357 The Wits of this age that are ready to snear and flear at any such profession.

1722 F. Atterbury Let. 26 Feb. in Wks. Alexander Pope (1871–89) IV. 39 I could be content to be a little sneered at in a line.

a1763 W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819) 20 The French seemed to sneer at this behaviour of the German officers, and looked on them with a kind of contempt.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. vii. 89 Flora, observing the Lowland ladies sneer at the comparison, produced some reasons to shew that it was not altogether so absurd.

1858 F. M. Müller German Classics Pref. p. xxviii Luther was sneered at because of his little German tracts.

1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. v. 176 Walpole sheltered himself behind the corner of a pension to sneer at the tragi-comedy of life.

b. Without const.

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

1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 202 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 221 The fear Lest fops should censure us, and fools should sneer.

1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 36 Men wondered, and some sneered to see One sow what he could never reap.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iii. 107 Philosophedom sneers aloud, as if its Necker already triumphed.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. i. 4 If authors sneer, it is the critic's business to sneer at them for sneering.

figurative.1835 L. Hunt Poems (1844) 96 Sneereth the trumpet, and stampeth the drum.

†3.

a. To laugh foolishly or smirkingly; to grin.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh foolishly

sneer1683

1683 A. Wood Life 17 Feb. They..stand silent, while their abbettors sneare and grin.

1695 A. Wood Life 23 Mar. With M^r J. Ecc. at the house next the Half-Moon: two snearing and laughing wo[men]: he sneared and laughed with them.

1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia ii. iv. 24 A Fourth would fondly kiss, and paw his Companions, and snear in their Faces, with a Countenance more antick, than any in a Dutch Droll.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 310 Our..Pilot, who had always something or other to say to make us merry, came sneering to me, and told me [etc.].

b. dialect. (See quot. a1825.)

ΚΠ

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Sneer, to make wry faces, without intention of expressing contempt or insult.

c. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.)

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) To ‘make all sneer again’ is to carry canvas to such an extent as to strain the ropes and spars to the utmost.

4. transitive. To utter with a sneer or in a sneering tone.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > with a sneer, laugh, etc.

laugheOE

simper1567

sneer1693

titter1787

chuckle out1820

snigger1857

sniff1859

smile1860

smirk1879

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by facial expression > utter with

sneer1693

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 5 I confess I have not been sneering fulsome Lies and nauseous Flattery.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Voyage 78 ‘A ship of fools,’ he sneer'd and wept.

1904 A. E. Glover 1000 Miles of Miracle (1908) x. 126 He sneered some contemptuous word.

5. To speak or write of (a person or thing) with scorn, contempt, or disparagement; to deride or decry. Obsolete exc. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > disparage or depreciate [verb (transitive)]

littleeOE

low1340

dispraisec1386

minish1402

deroge1427

detractc1449

descryc1450

detrayc1475

dismerit1484

decline1509

vilipend1509

disprize?1518

disable1528

derogatea1530

elevate1541

disparagea1556

detrect1563

debase1565

demerit1576

vilify1586

disgrace1589

detracta1592

besparage1592

enervate1593

obtrect1595

extenuate1601

disvalue1605

disparagon1610

undervalue1611

avile1615

debaucha1616

to cry down1616

debate1622

decry1641

atomize1645

underrate1646

naucify1653

dedignify1654

stuprate1655

de-ample1657

dismagn1657

slur1660

voguec1661

depreciate1666

to run down1671

baffle1674

lacken1674

sneer1706

diminish1712

substract1728

down1780

belittle1789

carbonify1792

to speak scorn of1861

to give one a back-cap1903

minoritize1947

mauvais langue1952

rubbish1953

down-talk1959

marginalize1970

marginate1970

trash1975

neg1987

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 94 When People ridicule and sneer you.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. ix. 41 Wedlock, which used to be very freely sneered by him.

1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 64 Blackmore's Banter on the Philosophers..proved more his own than their Ignorance, when he thus sneers them.

1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 576/1 He sneered me shameful.

6. To curl up (the lip) in contempt or scorn. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by facial expression > curl lip

sneer1775

1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) II. liii. 136 A pennyworth, sir!—cried the steward, (sneering up his upper-lip, till it touched the tip of his nose..) a pennyworth!

7. To affect in a certain way by sneering; to drive or force by means of sneers or scornful speech or manner:

a. Const. with prepositions, as from, into, out of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by facial expression > drive or force by

frown1678

sneer1737

1737 R. Savage Of Public Spirit 325 Careless of Whispers meant to wound their Name, Nor sneer'd nor brib'd from Virtue into Shame.

1859 Habits Good Society vii. 243 Who contradicts us flatly, and sneers us into insignificance.

1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xviii. 238 The world has not sneered it [feminine constancy] entirely out of existence.

reflexive.1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii It sneaks and bullies and sneers itself into place.

b. Const. with adverbs, as away or down.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [verb (reflexive)] > affect by facial expression

sneer1816

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xii. 267 But dinna ye sneer awa' the lad Lovel.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. vi. ii. 210 Proclaimed a sublime genius in the same circles which sneer down Voltaire.

1868 G. J. Whyte-Melville White Rose xlviii Very likely they were laughing over his infatuation and sneering her fair fame away.

1868 A. Helps Realmah (1876) viii. 237 Sneering can do a great deal: you can sneer down, at any rate for the moment, truth, honour [etc.].

reflexive.1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. iv. 68 He mutters to himself sarcastically, sneering himself up as it were to the attack.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sneer
释义	sneern. Brit. /snɪə/, U.S. /snɪ(ə)r/ Forms: Also 1700s snear. Etymology: < sneer v. Compare North Frisian sneer a scornful remark. 1. a. An act of sneering; a look or expression implying derision, contempt, or scorn; a disdainful or scornful remark or utterance, esp. one of a covert or indirect nature. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > by facial expression > instance of rhinoceros nose1555 frump1590 fleera1616 rhinocerot's nose1616 sneer1706 curl of the lip1814 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 107 He is applauded with a Sneer. 1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 251 He looks upon Atterbury's Complement as a Snear. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iii. 50 A sneer at my understanding. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris (ed. 2) Pref. p. xvii By making this confession I shall incur the sneers of those who have more prepossessions than scruples. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 113 Halifax..answered with a sneer that there was no danger. 1879 H. George Progress & Poverty (1881) ii. iii. 121 Amid the scoffs..and the sneers that stab like knives. b. Without article: Sneering, scorn. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] scornc1175 scarec1275 disdainc1290 forhoghta1300 despite1340 unworthhead1340 unworthness1340 despising1382 byscorn1387 contempta1393 daina1400 dedignationc1400 vilityc1430 despisec1440 contemption1467 lightliness1479 despection1482 misprisement1483 misprizing1485 contemnment1502 fastidie1536 misprize1590 misprision1592 sdeign1595 misprisal1596 despisement1603 disesteem1603 disestimation1619 despiciency1623 despect1624 disopinion1625 under-opinion1629 despisal1650 parvipension1675 sneer1791 misesteem1832 despication1837 1791 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) 396 He speaks even of those who are opposed to his government..without either sneer or acrimony. 1841 in Leic. Gloss. (1881) 246 He could not bear To see her treated with such scorn and sneer. 2. Scottish. A snort.Jamieson (1825) also gives ‘the act of inhalation or inspiration by the nostrils’; ‘the act of a horse, when colded, in throwing the mucus from his nostrils’; ‘the hiss of an adder’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > grunt or snort snorec1330 grunt?1615 gruntlea1689 sneer17.. snort1808 snork1814 17.. Lochmaben Harper in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 18/1 When she came to the harper's door, There she gave mony a nicher and sneer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sneerv. Brit. /snɪə/, U.S. /snɪ(ə)r/ Forms: Also 1600s sneare, 1600s–1700s snear. Etymology: probably of imitative origin. The relation to North Frisian (Sylt) sneere to scorn, is not clear. Apparent examples of snere, snered, and snering occur about 1300 in the E.E. Psalter ii. 4, xxxiv. 16, lxxviii. 4, and lxxix. 7, as renderings of Latin irridebit, deriserunt, and derisus; but two of the manuscripts have variants swere, swered, swering. The translator was evidently influenced by the Old English glosses bismerað, bismeradon, bismerung, and it is very doubtful whether he was using a word which was really known to him. 1. a. intransitive. Of a horse: To snort. Now dialect †Also transitive, to send out with snorts. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > sound made by horse > [verb (intransitive)] > snort snorec1400 snortc1405 sneer1553 1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados vii. v. 101 With twa sterne stedis..At thair neis thyrles the fyre fast furth snering out. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. 12 If..you doe now and then spirte a little Vineger into his nostrels,..it will both make him sneare and neese. 1814 R. Henderson Treat. Breeding Swine in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1115 The colt..scampered off sneering, with his tail on his ‘riggin’. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) (at cited word) If a horse sneers efter he coughs he's nut brokken windit. b. Scottish. Of an animal: To make a twitching movement with the nose. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > twitch or use the nose muzzle1490 nuzzle1603 sneer1844 nuddle1898 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 447 On the extrusion of the calf, the first symptom it shews of life is a few gasps.., and then it opens its eyes, and tries to shake its head, and sneer with its nose. 2. To smile scornfully or contemptuously; to express scorn, derision, or disparagement in this way; to speak or write in a manner suggestive or expressive of contempt or disparagement: a. Const. at a person or thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by facial expression sneer1680 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 357 The Wits of this age that are ready to snear and flear at any such profession. 1722 F. Atterbury Let. 26 Feb. in Wks. Alexander Pope (1871–89) IV. 39 I could be content to be a little sneered at in a line. a1763 W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819) 20 The French seemed to sneer at this behaviour of the German officers, and looked on them with a kind of contempt. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. vii. 89 Flora, observing the Lowland ladies sneer at the comparison, produced some reasons to shew that it was not altogether so absurd. View more context for this quotation 1858 F. M. Müller German Classics Pref. p. xxviii Luther was sneered at because of his little German tracts. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. v. 176 Walpole sheltered himself behind the corner of a pension to sneer at the tragi-comedy of life. b. Without const. 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 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 202 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 221 The fear Lest fops should censure us, and fools should sneer. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 36 Men wondered, and some sneered to see One sow what he could never reap. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iii. 107 Philosophedom sneers aloud, as if its Necker already triumphed. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. i. 4 If authors sneer, it is the critic's business to sneer at them for sneering. figurative.1835 L. Hunt Poems (1844) 96 Sneereth the trumpet, and stampeth the drum. †3. a. To laugh foolishly or smirkingly; to grin. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh foolishly sneer1683 1683 A. Wood Life 17 Feb. They..stand silent, while their abbettors sneare and grin. 1695 A. Wood Life 23 Mar. With M^r J. Ecc. at the house next the Half-Moon: two snearing and laughing wo[men]: he sneared and laughed with them. 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia ii. iv. 24 A Fourth would fondly kiss, and paw his Companions, and snear in their Faces, with a Countenance more antick, than any in a Dutch Droll. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 310 Our..Pilot, who had always something or other to say to make us merry, came sneering to me, and told me [etc.]. b. dialect. (See quot. a1825.) ΚΠ a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Sneer, to make wry faces, without intention of expressing contempt or insult. c. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.) ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) To ‘make all sneer again’ is to carry canvas to such an extent as to strain the ropes and spars to the utmost. 4. transitive. To utter with a sneer or in a sneering tone. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > with a sneer, laugh, etc. laugheOE simper1567 sneer1693 titter1787 chuckle out1820 snigger1857 sniff1859 smile1860 smirk1879 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by facial expression > utter with sneer1693 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 5 I confess I have not been sneering fulsome Lies and nauseous Flattery. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Voyage 78 ‘A ship of fools,’ he sneer'd and wept. 1904 A. E. Glover 1000 Miles of Miracle (1908) x. 126 He sneered some contemptuous word. 5. To speak or write of (a person or thing) with scorn, contempt, or disparagement; to deride or decry. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > disparage or depreciate [verb (transitive)] littleeOE low1340 dispraisec1386 minish1402 deroge1427 detractc1449 descryc1450 detrayc1475 dismerit1484 decline1509 vilipend1509 disprize?1518 disable1528 derogatea1530 elevate1541 disparagea1556 detrect1563 debase1565 demerit1576 vilify1586 disgrace1589 detracta1592 besparage1592 enervate1593 obtrect1595 extenuate1601 disvalue1605 disparagon1610 undervalue1611 avile1615 debaucha1616 to cry down1616 debate1622 decry1641 atomize1645 underrate1646 naucify1653 dedignify1654 stuprate1655 de-ample1657 dismagn1657 slur1660 voguec1661 depreciate1666 to run down1671 baffle1674 lacken1674 sneer1706 diminish1712 substract1728 down1780 belittle1789 carbonify1792 to speak scorn of1861 to give one a back-cap1903 minoritize1947 mauvais langue1952 rubbish1953 down-talk1959 marginalize1970 marginate1970 trash1975 neg1987 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 94 When People ridicule and sneer you. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. ix. 41 Wedlock, which used to be very freely sneered by him. 1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 64 Blackmore's Banter on the Philosophers..proved more his own than their Ignorance, when he thus sneers them. 1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 576/1 He sneered me shameful. 6. To curl up (the lip) in contempt or scorn. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by facial expression > curl lip sneer1775 1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) II. liii. 136 A pennyworth, sir!—cried the steward, (sneering up his upper-lip, till it touched the tip of his nose..) a pennyworth! 7. To affect in a certain way by sneering; to drive or force by means of sneers or scornful speech or manner: a. Const. with prepositions, as from, into, out of. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by facial expression > drive or force by frown1678 sneer1737 1737 R. Savage Of Public Spirit 325 Careless of Whispers meant to wound their Name, Nor sneer'd nor brib'd from Virtue into Shame. 1859 Habits Good Society vii. 243 Who contradicts us flatly, and sneers us into insignificance. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xviii. 238 The world has not sneered it [feminine constancy] entirely out of existence. reflexive.1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii It sneaks and bullies and sneers itself into place. b. Const. with adverbs, as away or down. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [verb (reflexive)] > affect by facial expression sneer1816 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xii. 267 But dinna ye sneer awa' the lad Lovel. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. vi. ii. 210 Proclaimed a sublime genius in the same circles which sneer down Voltaire. 1868 G. J. Whyte-Melville White Rose xlviii Very likely they were laughing over his infatuation and sneering her fair fame away. 1868 A. Helps Realmah (1876) viii. 237 Sneering can do a great deal: you can sneer down, at any rate for the moment, truth, honour [etc.]. reflexive.1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. iv. 68 He mutters to himself sarcastically, sneering himself up as it were to the attack. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.17..v.1553
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