Taunts vs Vaunts - What's the difference?
taunts | vaunts |
(taunt)
to make fun of (someone); to (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
(vaunt)
To speak boastfully.
* 1829 — , chapter XC
To speak boastfully about.
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
* Bible, 1 Cor. xiii. 4
* Milton
A boast; an instance of vaunting.
* Milton
* 1904 — , Book II, chapter III
As verbs the difference between taunts and vaunts
is that taunts is (taunt) while vaunts is (vaunt).As nouns the difference between taunts and vaunts
is that taunts is while vaunts is .taunts
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Verb
(head)Noun
(head)taunt
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Etymology 1
Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) . See ataunt.vaunts
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(head)vaunt
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) vaunter, variant of (etyl) vanter, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."
- Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
- My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
Synonyms
* (speak boastfully) boast, bragDerived terms
* vaunterNoun
(en noun)- the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
- He has answered me back, vaunt' for ' vaunt , rhetoric for rhetoric.
