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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Flout

Flout (flout), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flouting.] [OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D. fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.] To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.

Phillida flouts me. Walton.

Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky. Byron.

Flout, v. i. To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; — often with at.

Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

Flout, n. A mock; an insult.

Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn. Tennyson.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.