Definition of "taunt"

taunt¹

/tɔːnt/

verb
third-person singular simple present taunts, present participle taunting, simple past and past participle taunted
1. to make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
noun
plural taunts
1. A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery
  Quotations
  VVith ſcoffs and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
  1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene vi], page 100, column 1
  The attacks and the failure to catch the killer created an atmosphere of fear and dismay throughout Yorkshire, and provoked grim taunts to the police at Leeds United football matches such as “Ripper 10, Police nil”
  2020 November 13, Duncan Campbell, “Peter Sutcliffe obituary”, in The Guardian‎

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