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FLOUTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flouter mean?
• FLOUTER (noun)
The noun FLOUTER has 1 sense:
1. someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
Familiarity information: FLOUTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
flouter; jeerer; mocker; scoffer
Hypernyms ("flouter" is a kind of...):
disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)
Derivation:
flout (treat with contemptuous disregard)
flout (laugh at with contempt and derision)
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