[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who flouts or mocks.

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1581.  Pettie, Guazzo’s Civ. Conv., I. (1586), 35. You flouter attribute a vertue vnto me which is not in me, and shewe yourselfe a flatterer and a flouter.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., Democr. to Rdr. 64. Democritus that common flowter of folly, was ridiculous himselfe;

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1755.  in Johnson.

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1869.  Blackmore, Lorna D., xxvi. Perhaps she had cast me away altogether, as a flouter and a changeling.

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