See flout in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for flout meaning in English (10.5kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "flouten",
"4": "",
"5": "to play the flute"
},
"expansion": "Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "fluiten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch fluiten",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Perhaps from Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”); compare with Dutch fluiten.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "flouts",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "flouting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "flouted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "flouted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "flout (third-person singular simple present flouts, present participle flouting, simple past and past participle flouted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 September 29, “Tax alchemy: Tech's avoidance”, in The Economist",
"text": "The manoeuvres of Microsoft and HP appear to comply with the letter of the regulations, even if they flout their spirit.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 October 11, Kenneth Roth, “The attack on Israel has been called a ‘9/11 moment’. Therein lies a cautionary tale”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "Of necessity[…] the duty to comply with the rules designed to spare civilians as much as possible the hazards of war is absolute, not contingent on the behavior of opponents. The Israeli government already seems to be flouting those rules.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action."
],
"id": "en-flout-en-verb-YgkUpLor",
"links": [
[
"contempt",
"contempt"
],
[
"law",
"law"
],
[
"rule",
"rule"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prenebregvam",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "пренебрегвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gōngrán",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "公然藐視"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miǎoshì",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "藐视、違背"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wéibèi",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "违背"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "minachten"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "veronachtzamen"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "uhmata"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "halveksia"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "pitää pilkkanaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "desleixar"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "sich hinwegsetzen über"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "missachten"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "pfeifen auf"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "semmibe vesz"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "fittyet hány"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "whakatoi"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "whakatoitoi"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "zlekceważyć"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "desrespeitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prenebregátʹ",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "пренебрега́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "sobreponerse"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"raw_tags": [
"of an action"
],
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "saltarse a la torera"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "znevažaty",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "зневажати"
},
{
"_dis1": "77 23",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nextuvaty",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "нехтувати"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To scorn."
],
"id": "en-flout-en-verb-mCe8xTED",
"links": [
[
"scorn",
"scorn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, archaic) To scorn."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nadsmivam se",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "надсмивам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podigravam se",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "подигравам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "藐視"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miǎoshì",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "藐视、鄙視"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bǐshì",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "鄙视、不屑"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "bespotten"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "halveksia"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "pitää pilkkanaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "mépriser"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "se moquer de"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "verspotten"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "beleidigen"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "kigúnyol"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "kicsúfol"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "megcsúfol"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "arcul csap"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "whakatoi"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "whakatoitoi"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "gardzić"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "escarnecer"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "ridicularizar"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nasmexatʹsja",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "насмехаться"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "glumitʹsja",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "глумиться"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "hluzuvaty",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "глузувати"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nasmixatysja",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "насміхатися"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/flaʊt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/flʌʊt/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-flout.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "flout"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "flouten",
"4": "",
"5": "to play the flute"
},
"expansion": "Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "fluiten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch fluiten",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Perhaps from Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”); compare with Dutch fluiten.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "flouts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "flout (plural flouts)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "64 9 20 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012, John Flowerdew, Discourse in English Language Education, page 97",
"text": "A flout is when someone deliberately and ostentatiously contravenes a maxim.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law."
],
"id": "en-flout-en-noun-FHlhazrs"
},
{
"glosses": [
"A mockery or insult."
],
"id": "en-flout-en-noun-mHZvCMJz"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/flaʊt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/flʌʊt/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-flout.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "flout"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/aʊt",
"Rhymes:English/aʊt/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "flouten",
"4": "",
"5": "to play the flute"
},
"expansion": "Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "fluiten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch fluiten",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Perhaps from Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”); compare with Dutch fluiten.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "flouts",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "flouting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "flouted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "flouted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "flout (third-person singular simple present flouts, present participle flouting, simple past and past participle flouted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 September 29, “Tax alchemy: Tech's avoidance”, in The Economist",
"text": "The manoeuvres of Microsoft and HP appear to comply with the letter of the regulations, even if they flout their spirit.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 October 11, Kenneth Roth, “The attack on Israel has been called a ‘9/11 moment’. Therein lies a cautionary tale”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "Of necessity[…] the duty to comply with the rules designed to spare civilians as much as possible the hazards of war is absolute, not contingent on the behavior of opponents. The Israeli government already seems to be flouting those rules.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action."
],
"links": [
[
"contempt",
"contempt"
],
[
"law",
"law"
],
[
"rule",
"rule"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To scorn."
],
"links": [
[
"scorn",
"scorn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, archaic) To scorn."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/flaʊt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/flʌʊt/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-flout.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prenebregvam",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "пренебрегвам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gōngrán",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "公然藐視"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miǎoshì",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "藐视、違背"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wéibèi",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "违背"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "minachten"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "veronachtzamen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "uhmata"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "halveksia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "pitää pilkkanaan"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "desleixar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "sich hinwegsetzen über"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "missachten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "pfeifen auf"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "semmibe vesz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "fittyet hány"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "whakatoi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "whakatoitoi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "zlekceważyć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "desrespeitar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prenebregátʹ",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "пренебрега́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "sobreponerse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"raw_tags": [
"of an action"
],
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "saltarse a la torera"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "znevažaty",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "зневажати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nextuvaty",
"sense": "to express contempt for the rules by word or action",
"word": "нехтувати"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nadsmivam se",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "надсмивам се"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podigravam se",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "подигравам се"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "藐視"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miǎoshì",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "藐视、鄙視"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bǐshì",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "鄙视、不屑"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "bespotten"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "halveksia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "pitää pilkkanaan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "mépriser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "se moquer de"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "verspotten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "beleidigen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "kigúnyol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "kicsúfol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "megcsúfol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "arcul csap"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "whakatoi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "whakatoitoi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "gardzić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "escarnecer"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "ridicularizar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nasmexatʹsja",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "насмехаться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "glumitʹsja",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "глумиться"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "hluzuvaty",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "глузувати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nasmixatysja",
"sense": "to scorn",
"word": "насміхатися"
}
],
"word": "flout"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/aʊt",
"Rhymes:English/aʊt/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "flouten",
"4": "",
"5": "to play the flute"
},
"expansion": "Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "fluiten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch fluiten",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Perhaps from Middle English flouten (“to play the flute”); compare with Dutch fluiten.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "flouts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "flout (plural flouts)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012, John Flowerdew, Discourse in English Language Education, page 97",
"text": "A flout is when someone deliberately and ostentatiously contravenes a maxim.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A mockery or insult."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/flaʊt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/flʌʊt/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-flout.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-flout.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "flout"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": bùxiè vs. bǐshì",
"path": [
"flout"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "flout",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.