Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Flout

Flout , transitive verb

[OD. fluyten to play the flute, to jeer, Dutch fluiten, from fluit, from French. See Flute.]

To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
Phillida flouts me. — Walton
Three gaudy standards flout the pale blue sky. — Byron

Flout , intransitive verb

To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.
Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. — Swift

Flout , noun

A mock; an insult.
Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn. — Tennyson