SNEER, SNEERING
ADJECTIVES
1647 — FRUMPISH disposed to mock or flout; jesting, sneering
1824 — IRRISORY having the character of deriding or mocking; addicted to laughing or sneering at others
1964 — SNIDEY sneering; disdainful; contemptuous → UK sl.
NOUNS
1653 — FRUMPERY a flout, a mock, a sneer → obs.
1825 — DIRDUMS ridicule, scoffs, sneers, slanders → Sc.
1834 — SNIRTLE a suppressed laugh; a sneer → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1868 — JAMF — JAMPH — JAUMPH a mock, a jeer, a sneer → Sc.
1926 — FLING a sneer → US sl. (Bk.)
1929 — PUSSER’S GRIN a sneer (pusser = purser) → marine sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
1563 — GIBER one who utters jibes and taunts; one who ridicules or sneers at another; a scoffer
1584 — GIRDER one who sneers or cavils; a jester or satirist → obs.
VERBS
1554 — SNAG to carp, to cavil, to sneer, to nag → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1643 — JERK to aim satire; to sneer, to carp → obs.
1768 — JAMF — JAMPH — JAUMPH to make game of; to mock at, to jeer, to sneer → Sc.
1785 — SNIRTLE to laugh in a quiet, suppressed, or restrained manner; to snigger; to sneer → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1825 — GULE to flout, to sneer; to laugh, to make fun of, to jeer, to boast → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1900 — SLING OFF to speak sarcastically; to sneer → Aust. & NZ sl.
1901 — CHUCK OFF to speak sarcastically; to sneer → Aust. & NZ sl.
1937 — SNURL to sneer at → Amer. dial.
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