LekhoriLekhoriTo make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
Very high or tall.
the great ships, for want of ſufficient masts, will lose the advantages the taunt masts would procure
A surname.
From Middle French tanter (“to tempt, try, provoke”), variant of Old French tempter (“to try”). Doublet of tempt.
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