Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sneer.
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Examples
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Sometimes Qual told them the names of the creatures: There was a loud-voiced, squatty thing he called a grambler, a little burrowing creature called a western flurn, and a furtive thing with eyes that shone brightly in their Legion-issue night vision goggles, which Qual's translator solemnly informed them was a spotted sloon.
Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001
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Adieu! then, for ever, and calm be your flurn* bers,
The lay of Corneelis: in three cantos, by an officer [T.W. Taylor] who was present at the storm ... Thomas William Taylor 1812
Barnegat commented on the word flurn
A flurn is a special holiday celebrated by people named Zoe or Zander, always on Sundays and only when eating funny foods. "Happy Flurn-Day" is their merry greeting, always accompanied by laughter and spinning around shouting, "DOUGGO!!!"
May 3, 2016
Barnegat commented on the word flurn
Happy FLURN Day, Zoe and Zander!
May 3, 2016
Gammerstang commented on the word flurn
(verb) - To think little of, to disparage . . . Neither of the two great . . . lexicographers, Johnson and . . . Webster, seem to have been cognizant of the word.
--Charles Mackay's Lost Beauties of the English Language, 1874
January 14, 2018