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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1562-1585
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Tanting, Taunting, vbl. n. [e.m.E. taunting (1563).] The action or practice of taunting or mocking; an instance of this, a taunt. — 1562-3 Winȝet I 57/32.
Quhill the erroneous assault me be tanting and mockrie, quhen thai may naways be veritie 1562-3 Winȝet II 81/21.
Sum blasphemous bairdis … wald draw the cunning auctour thairof in a contempt and lichtlie be thare iesting, tanting and rayling [etc.] 1572 Knox VI 496.
To desist from taunting and mockage of so notable workes of God — a1585 Arbuthnot in Maitland Quarto MS 121/81.
Ȝea oftymes man I lauche suppose I yrke Quhen bitterlie thair tauntingis thay haue tauld
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