taunt

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• tônt
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• Received-Pronunciation: /tɔːnt/
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• US: /tɔnt/
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• cot-caught-merger: /tɑnt/
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• rhymes with -ɔːnt
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• CMU ARPABET: T AO1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Compare Old French tant (“so great”), French tant (“so much”), Latin tantus (“of such size, so great, so much”). See ataunt.

Perhaps a variant of Daunt.

From Middle French tanter (“to tempt, try, provoke”), variant of Old French tempter (“to try”). Doublet of tempt.

105 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Azerbaijani: kinayə — a scornful or mocking remark
• Bulgarian: присмех (prismeh) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Bulgarian: подигравка (podigravka) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Chinese Mandarin: 奚落 (xīluò) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Dutch: schimpscheut — a scornful or mocking remark
• Finnish: pilkka — a scornful or mocking remark
• French: sarcasme — a scornful or mocking remark
• Galician: escarnio — a scornful or mocking remark
• Galician: mofa — a scornful or mocking remark
• Galician: ludibrio — a scornful or mocking remark
• German: Spott — a scornful or mocking remark
• German: höhnische Bemerkung — a scornful or mocking remark
• German: spöttische Bemerkung — a scornful or mocking remark
• German: Stichelei — a scornful or mocking remark
• Greek: χλευασμός (chlevasmós) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Greek: λοιδορία (loidoría) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Greek: σαρκασμός (sarkasmós) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Greek: κοροϊδία (koroïdía) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Hungarian: gúnyolódás — a scornful or mocking remark
• Hungarian: beszólás — a scornful or mocking remark
• Icelandic: smán — a scornful or mocking remark
• Icelandic: brigsl — a scornful or mocking remark
• Icelandic: hæðni — a scornful or mocking remark
• Irish: oirbhire — a scornful or mocking remark
• Irish: tarcaisne — a scornful or mocking remark
• Italian: scherno — a scornful or mocking remark
• Italian: dileggio — a scornful or mocking remark
• Japanese: 嘲笑 (chōshō) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Khmer: ការចំអក (karchâmʼâk) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Korean: 조롱 (jorong) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Korean: 모욕 (moyok) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Macedonian: по́тсмев (pótsmev) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Māori: taunu — a scornful or mocking remark
• Māori: kaioraora — a scornful or mocking remark
• Norwegian: forhånelse — a scornful or mocking remark
• Norwegian: hån — a scornful or mocking remark
• Norwegian: nid — a scornful or mocking remark
• Polish: drwina — a scornful or mocking remark
• Portuguese: zombaria — a scornful or mocking remark
• Romanian: batjocură — a scornful or mocking remark
• Romanian: zeflemea — a scornful or mocking remark
• Russian: ко́лкость (kólkostʹ) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Spanish: mofa — a scornful or mocking remark
• Spanish: pulla — a scornful or mocking remark
• Spanish: cachita — a scornful or mocking remark
• Spanish: cacha — a scornful or mocking remark
• Swedish: gliring — a scornful or mocking remark
• Swedish: glåpord — a scornful or mocking remark
• Turkish: alay — a scornful or mocking remark
• Ottoman Turkish: لطیفه (latife) — a scornful or mocking remark
• Vietnamese: lời chế giễu — a scornful or mocking remark
• Arabic: سَخِرَ (saḵira) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Arabic: اَتَّرْيَق (attaryag) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Bulgarian: надсмивам се (nadsmivam se) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Bulgarian: подигравам се (podigravam se) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Catalan: mofar-se de — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Chinese Mandarin: 奚落 (xīluò) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Dutch: hekelen — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Esperanto: defii — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Finnish: pilkata — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• French: narguer — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• German: verspotten — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• German: hänseln — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• German: Spott treiben mit — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Greek: λοιδορώ (loidoró) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Greek: χλευάζω (chlevázo) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Greek: σαρκάζω (sarkázo) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Greek: κοροϊδεύω (koroïdévo) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Ancient Greek: κερτομέω (kertoméō) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Hebrew: סָנַט (sanát) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Hungarian: kigúnyol — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Icelandic: smána — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Icelandic: brigsla — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Icelandic: hæða — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Italian: schernire — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Italian: dileggiare — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Italian: irridere — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Japanese: 楯突く (tatetsuku) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Khmer: ចំអក (cɑmʼɑɑk) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Korean: 조롱하다 (joronghada) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Korean: 모욕하다 (moyokhada) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Māori: tāwai — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Māori: taunu — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Māori: whakatarariki — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Norwegian: håne — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Portuguese: zombar — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Portuguese: provocar — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Romanian: batjocori — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Romanian: zeflemisi — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Russian: насмеха́ться над (nasmexátʹsja nad) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Spanish: mofarse de — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Spanish: pullar — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Spanish: cachosear — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Spanish: sacar cachita — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Swedish: häckla — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Swedish: pika — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Swedish: smäda — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Tamil: சீண்டு (cīṇṭu) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Thai: ยั่วยุ — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Thai: ยั่ว (yûua) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Thai: ยุ (yú) — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Turkish: alay etmek — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Turkish: sataşmak — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Turkish: iğnelemek — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding
• Vietnamese: chế giễu — to make fun of (someone); to goad into responding