TAUNT

a. v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.

2.
v.

To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout. When I had at my pleasure taunted her. Shak.

3.
n.

Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective. With scoffs, and scorns, and contemelious taunts. Shak. With sacrilegious taunt and impious jest. Prior.

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