TAUNT, TAUNTING
ADJECTIVES
1606 ► JEERY scornfully derisive, taunting, scoffing → obs. rare
NOUNS
– BAB a taunt; a gibe …Bk1911 Sc.
– BAUCHLING reproaching, taunting …1835 Sc.
– BISMER a reproach, a taunt, an insult …971 obs.
– BOB a taunt, a gibe …Bk1911 Sc.
– EDWIT reproach, rebuke, taunt; taunting speech …c825 obs.
– GAB a taunt …a1225 obs.
– JOE a taunt to or warning of the approach of a policeman …M19 Aust. & NZ
– LEDOR a biting taunt …1623 obs.
– MICKEY-TAKING; MICKY-TAKING an act of derisive taunting …1959 UK sl.
– OPPROBRATION reproaching, taunting, reviling …c1616 obs. rare
– QUIB a taunt, a jibe …1656 obs.
– SNAP an insult, esp. a public taunt …1990s Amer. sl.
– SOUND a taunt or tease; an insult …1967 US sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
1557 ► TAUNTRESS a woman who taunts, scoffs, or jeers → rare
VERBS
– BAIRGE; BERGE to speak in a loud and angry manner; to scold, to rail, to taunt loudly …1887 Sc.
– BANTER to squabble, to tease, to taunt …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BETWIT to reproach; to taunt, to jibe …1661 obs. rare
– CHECK to tease, to taunt …1941 Amer. dial.
– CRACK to taunt or insult, as with a wisecrack …1942 Amer. sl., chiefly Black
– CRACK ON to taunt or insult, as with a wisecrack …1942 Amer. sl., chiefly Black
– DIG OUT to taunt, to insult …1998 UK sl.
– DING ON THE NOSE to taunt, to reprove …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– EDWITE to taunt, to blame, to reproach …c825 obs.
– EMBRAID to upbraid, to taunt, to mock; also, to reproach one with …1481 obs.
– GUY to mock, to ridicule; to taunt; to tease…1854 Amer. sl.
– HEASCEN to mock, to deride, to taunt …c1000 obs.
– HEASCEN to rail, to utter taunts …c1000 obs.
– JOE to taunt, (esp. a policeman) with a cry of ‘joe’ …M19 Aust. & NZ
– NAG to gnaw, to nibble …1825 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– NARG to keep grumbling and finding fault; to be peevish; to argue snappishly; to nag, to taunt …1824 Sc.
– PUT SOMETHING AGAINST A MAN’S BEARD to taunt him with it …1387 obs.
– QUIB to taunt, to gibe at, to quip …1592 obs. rare
– SCANCE to criticize, to be censorious about, to reproach, to taunt …1801 Sc.
– TASH to slander; to cast a stain on a person; to upbraid, to taunt …1827 Sc. obs.
– TAUNTIFY to taunt …1901 Eng. dial.
– UPCAST to taunt or reproach …1930 Amer. dial.