flout Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb treat with contemptuous disregard
    scoff.
    • flout the rules
  2. verb laugh at with contempt and derision
    barrack; jeer; gibe; scoff.
    • The crowd jeered at the speaker

WordNet


Flout transitive verb
Etymology
OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D. fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Flouted; present participle & verbal noun Flouting
Definitions
  1. To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
    Phillida flouts me. Walton.
    Three gaudy standarts lout the pale blue sky. Byron.
Flout intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.
    Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.
Flout noun
Definitions
  1. A mock; an insult.
    Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn. Tennyson.

Webster 1913