Reverse Dictionary: TAUNT

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.