TAUNT
- Definiția din dicționar
Traducere: română
Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.
Taunt (?), a. [Cf. OF. tant so great, F. tant so much, L. tantus of such size, so great, so much.] (Naut.) Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.
[1913 Webster]
Taunt (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Taunting.] [Earlier, to tease; probably fr. OF. tanter to tempt, to try, for tenter. See Tempt.] To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
[1913 Webster]
When I had at my pleasure taunted her.
Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Syn. -- To deride; ridicule; mock; jeer; flout; revile. See Deride.
[1913 Webster]
Taunt, n. Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.
[1913 Webster]
With scoffs, and scorns, and contemelious taunts.
Shak.
[1913 Webster]
With sacrilegious taunt and impious jest.
Prior.
[1913 Webster]
