Crossword-Solution: TAUNT 5 letters, 119 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Taunt	a.	Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
Taunt	v. t.	To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
Taunt	n.	Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
TAUNT	anagram	TUANT

We have 119 clues for the answer “TAUNT”

Clue	Answers
"In your face!" e.g.	1 answer
"In your face!" is one	1 answer
"Nyah, nyah!," e.g.	1 answer
"Nyah-nyah"	1 answer
"Nyah-nyah," e.g.	1 answer
"Nyah-nyah," for one	1 answer
"Nyah-nyah," is one	1 answer
A popular one is "In your face!"	1 answer
Annoy a speechgiver	1 answer
Bit of derision	1 answer
Bleachers' dig	1 answer
Call mean names, say	1 answer
Challenge mockingly	1 answer
Goading remark	1 answer
Harass from the stands, say	1 answer
Harass with persistent criticism	1 answer
Insult; jeer at	1 answer
Insulting gibe, e.g.	1 answer
Insulting reproach.	1 answer
Jeering remark	1 answer
Mock from the stands, perhaps	1 answer
Provoke verbally	1 answer
Provoke with jeers	1 answer
Provoke with words	1 answer
Provoking remark	1 answer
Rag, goad	1 answer
Razz(5)	1 answer
Reproach bitterly	1 answer
Ride a lot	1 answer
Ride, but not in a nice way	1 answer
Sarcastic gibe	1 answer
Say "Nyah, nyah" to, e.g.	1 answer
Say "neener neener," say	1 answer
Say "nyah-nyah" to	1 answer
Say ``In your face!"	1 answer
Spiteful insult	1 answer
Take shots at, say	1 answer
Tall and well-stayed: naut.	1 answer
Tease harshly	1 answer
Tease in a cruel way	1 answer
Tease or rib	1 answer
Tease terribly	1 answer
Tease with mean comments	1 answer
The popular one is "in your face!"	1 answer
Troll's comment	1 answer
Your mother wears army boots!,	1 answer
Provocative remark	2 answers
Take a dig at	2 answers
Give a ribbing to	2 answers
Fresh cut	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETREA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with TAUNT (5)

With a stealthy step he entered, Round the lodge in wild disorder Threw the household things about him, Piled together in confusion Bowls of wood and earthen kettles, Robes of buffalo and beaver, Skins of otter, lynx, and ermine, As an insult to Nokomis, As a taunt to Minnehaha.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

They replied, “We are all very well, and shall continue so, if you will only be good enough to go away, and leave us as we are.” The Kid and the Wolf A KID standing on the roof of a house, out of harm’s way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

After all, then, his interpretation of Rokoff’s sinister taunt had been erroneous, and he had been bearing the burden of a double apprehension needlessly—at least so thought the ape-man.

The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Great apes jabbered at them and menaced them; but Tarzan answered them after their own kind, giving back taunt for taunt, insult for insult, challenge for challenge.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995

Nay, every libertine will think he has a right to insult her with his licentious passion; and should the unhappy creature shrink from the insolent overture, he will sneeringly taunt her with pretence of modesty.

Charlotte Temple Susanna Rowson 2006

Quotes with TAUNT (3)

I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle…

William Goldman The Princess Bride

Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one, always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't …

Elizabeth Gilbert

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

P. G. Wodehouse The Adventures of Sally

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 201 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).