transitive. To attack or goad with speech or language; esp. to say something apt or telling about (a person) by way of censure or provocation; to…

transitive. To subject (a person or thing) to mocking criticism; to attack verbally. Cf. sense 1. Obsolete.

transitive. To make (a person, group, etc.) the object of a quip or quips; (also) to bring into a particular state by quipping. Now rare.

transitive. To attack (a person) by means of quirks (quirk, n.1 1b); to make quips at the expense of (a person). Also intransitive. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. = satirize, v. 2. In early use chiefly in passive.

transitive. To ridicule or criticize by means of satire; to treat or depict satirically.

to speak sarcastically of.

transitive. To ridicule (a person) by means of irony; to speak ironically to.

to wise off (U.S. slang): to make wisecracks at someone.