Taunt meaning

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To taunt is to tease, insult or antagonize someone by deliberately saying or doing something mean.

An example of taunt is when a school bully yells mean things at another child.

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To reproach in a mocking, insulting, or contemptuous manner.

Taunted her for wearing hand-me-down clothes.

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To drive or incite (a person) by taunting.

His friends taunted him into asking for a raise.

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The definition of a taunt is a cruel or teasing remark.

An example of a taunt is when someone is called ugly.

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To tease and excite sexually.

Taunted him with glimpses of skin.

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A scornful remark; a jeer.
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Unusually tall. Used of masts.
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Very tall.
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To reproach in scornful or sarcastic language; jeer at; mock.
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To drive or provoke (a person) by taunting.
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A scornful or jeering remark; gibe.
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To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
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(nautical) Very high or tall.

A ship with taunt masts.

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Origin of taunt

Compare Old French tant (“so great"), French tant (“so much"), Latin tantus (“of such size, so great, so much"). See ataunt.

Sentence Examples

  • On these grounds the adversaries of Demosthenes, in after-days, used absurdly to taunt him with a traitorous or barbarian ancestry.

  • And he repeats the taunt which the Arab Emir addressed to Smbat their leader, as he led him to execution: "If Christ rose on the third day, then since you call yourself Christ, I will slay you and bury you; and if you shall come to life again after thirty days, then I will know you are Christ, even though you take so many days over your resurrection."

  • This congruity of the miracle with divine truth and grace is the answer to Matthew Arnold's taunt about turning a pen into a pen-wiper or Huxley's about a centaur trotting down Regent Street.

  • No English statesman probably has ever been, at different times in his career, so able an advocate of absolutely contradictory policies, and his opponents were not slow to taunt him with quotations from his earlier speeches.

  • These fans are labeled 'griefers' by some, because they love to taunt a fan base or because they love to see how far they can take the Internet 'whisper' game.

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