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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 derisionplay

  Familiarity information: FLOUTER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLOUTER (noun)


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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