单词 | taunting |
释义 | tauntingn. The action of taunt v.1 ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [noun] edwitc825 onsawOE teenOE upbrixlec1175 lasting?c1225 upbrud?c1225 upbraidc1275 upbraidingc1275 upbraidinga1300 umbraidc1330 atwiting1340 reprocec1350 reprocingc1350 reprucec1350 again-chidinga1382 brixlinga1400 reproachc1405 edwitinga1425 rebukec1454 forwitting1481 improperation1502 outbraiding1509 exprobration1526 checking1535 impropery1542 reproaching1542 braiding1552 improbation1556 taunting1563 twitting1565 upbraying1585 reproachmentc1592 umbraiding1597 monishment1896 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 57 The erroneous assault me be [= by] tanting and mockrie. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Matrimony, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 502 How few matrimonies there be without chidings, brawlings, tauntings, repentings. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 1 Fine phrases, smoth quipping, merry taunting. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 476 A tongue accustom'd much To tauntings. 1811 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. IV. Suppl. 285 'Tis thus I..foil their tauntings with a joke. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2021). tauntingadj. That taunts, or reproaches provokingly. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [adjective] upbraidinga1300 reproachable?1473 reproachful1531 taunting1548 reproaching1570 exprobratory1592 exprobrative1613 exprobrating1673 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xix Railyng rimes, malicious meters and tauntyng verses. 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 491 Their taunting Proverb against God is propounded. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 31 They accompanied their notice..with every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. 1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. lxii. 155 Cleomenes insulted his disappointment by a taunting letter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1563adj.1548 |
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