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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
banter, bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, derision, derisive, derisory, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, jeering, joshing, kidding, leering, levity, mockery, mocking, panning, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, teasing, twitting
Dictionary Results for taunting:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
taunting
    adj 1: abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule;
           "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking
           smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn:
           derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting]
    n 1: aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing [syn:
         twit, taunt, taunting]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Taunting \Taunt"ing\,
   a. & n. from Taunt, v.
   [1913 Webster]

         Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection.
                                                  --Burke.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Taunt \Taunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taunted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Taunting.] [Earlier, to tease; probably fr. OF. tanter to
   tempt, to try, for tenter. See Tempt.]
   To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to
   upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
   [1913 Webster]

         When I had at my pleasure taunted her.   --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: To deride; ridicule; mock; jeer; flout; revile. See
        Deride.
        [1913 Webster]
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