All 9 Uses
taunt
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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- No comfort knowing that the taunters were rag pickers too.†
Chpt 1taunters = people who intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone
- No matter that her brother would straggle back, empty-handed with his gang and taunt later comers the same way.†
Chpt 1 *taunt = (verb) to intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone -- especially by mocking them or hurling insults OR (noun) an insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
- Once, when taunted by a youngster, she had retorted, "Aw, you don't know what you're saying.†
Chpt 13taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
- When none came, she taunted: "Why don't you bust out crying, you dockle?†
Chpt 15
- They are mean and greedy towards others because they have the things to taunt poor children with.†
Chpt 27taunt = (verb) to intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone -- especially by mocking them or hurling insults OR (noun) an insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
- "Why don't you go with him," taunted the stringy woman.†
Chpt 30taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
- Francie saw how the unfortunate boy flushed a brick red at each taunt and she felt sorry for him.†
Chpt 43taunt = (verb) to intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone -- especially by mocking them or hurling insults OR (noun) an insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
- "Nix verstandt," said another who had been taunting her in idiomatic English all morning.†
Chpt 43taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- The one who had led the taunts all morning, took a long swig out of a whiskey bottle and then passed it to Francie.†
Chpt 43taunts = (verb) intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone OR (noun) insults or other actions intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
Definitions:
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(1)
(taunt) to intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone -- especially by mocking them or hurling insults
or (as a noun): an insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, taunt can be used as a noun to refer to something said or done to mock, criticize, and/or tease.