From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
flout
v 1: treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules" [syn:
scoff]
2: laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at
the speaker" [syn: jeer, scoff, barrack, gibe]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flout \Flout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flouted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flouting.] [OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, D.
fluiten, fr. fluit, fr. French. See Flute.]
To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
[1913 Webster]
Phillida flouts me. --Walton.
[1913 Webster]
Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky. --Byron.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flout \Flout\, v. i.
To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to
fleer; -- often with at.
[1913 Webster]
Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Flout \Flout\, n.
A mock; an insult.
[1913 Webster]
Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]