sleer

English[edit]

sleer (third-person singular simple present sleers, present participle sleering, simple past and past participle sleered)

(obsolete) To mock or jeer.
- 1825, The Freethinking Christians' Quarterly Register, volume 2, page 142:
  […] for were it possible that any one could bring us Father Adam's girdle and Mother Eve's apron, what laughing — what sleering — what mocking of their homely fashions would there be!