[Fictionary] fleer ballot

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

Here's fleers, defined by your peers.  Please send me votes in the
usual way (one 2-pointer and one 1-pointer) before I wake up on
Saturday.




fleer - n. - a crown with points that curve outward, away from the head.

The Fox, the Duck, and MacCaulay the Crow,
Rule England under the fleer-topped Roe.



fleer, n. 1. The disturbances made in a thick fog by a passing ship or
other vessel. 2. A ghost or apparition.

Heed not the fleer
Who'd lead you astray,
Keep watch for the light
What marks the bay!"



fleer: (adj) Sprightly, self-confident and cheerful; jaunty.

O sweeter than a mother's milk,
'Tis sweeter far to me;
how sweet to hear a jig so fleer
in goodly company



Fleer - v. - to whet a blade in a threatening manner.

In Gloucestershire
The bully peer
Did lour and fleer.



fleer - n - that portion of the labia alongside and covering the clitoris

Mrs. Stewart she was there,
Came down from Loch McLear.
Her joyful screams cracked every ear
When touched upon her fleer



fleer, n. A facial expression indicating contempt. -v. To make such a
facial expression.

Why do you give a haughty fleer
Toward your Creator?
Humble yourself, or He'll make clear
Which one is the greater.



fleer (v): to laugh or grimace in a coarse derisive manner; sneer

We've come intil a gey queer time
Whan scrievin Scots is near a crime,
"There's no one speaks like that," they fleer,
--But wha the deil spoke like King Lear?



fleer, v.  To conjure up something.

There are them that sez
Nothing rhymes with oranges
Among those be poets
Who though they don't know it
Often fleer verse
With golds and silvers



fleer, n.  Alcoholic beverage produced through freeze distillation of
beer.  Usually 30-40% alcohol by volume, with a harsher taste than
traditional distilled spirits due to the conservation of fusel
alcohols in freeze distillation.

I went to bed
But oh my head
I'd thought it beer
'Twas fleer.



Fleer: (n)  a mouse-like rodent, native to the Alps.

I thought I saw a butterfly
That lingered in the rear;
I looked again
And saw it was
A very tiny fleer!
I told it to go home before
It tangled with the gear!



fleer (n.) -- A hand tool with a pickaxe-like head, used in climbing
difficult stairs.

Pray bethink the exaltation of young Cecil's future station
 Should he resolve upon a Ministry career!
He will tap down Whitehall tamely with his Rod of Office, namely
 His malacca, his umbrella, or his fleer.