[flaʊt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- openly disregard (a rule, law, or convention)
(e.g: the advertising code is being flouted)

- mock; scoff
(e.g: the women pointed and flouted at her)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century: perhaps from Dutch fluiten ‘whistle, play the flute, hiss (in derision)’; German dialect pfeifen auf, literally ‘pipe at’, has a similar extended meaning