Vaunt vs Taunt - What's the difference?
vaunt | taunt |
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 vaunt and taunt
is that vaunt is to speak boastfully while taunt is to make fun of (someone); to (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.As nouns the difference between vaunt and taunt
is that vaunt is a boast; an instance of vaunting or vaunt can be (obsolete) the first part while taunt is a scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.As an adjective taunt is
(nautical) very high or tall.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.