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Tanting, Taunting, ppl. adj. Also: tantting. [e.m.E. tauntyng (a1548).] Designed to taunt; mocking, scornful. a1585 Maitl. Q. 230/131.
Sum taunting wordes thay haue parqueir That seruis thame in all mateir a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 834 (Wr.).
A man in shape doth not consist, For all your tanting tales c1590 J. Stewart 9/46.
Thocht Momus than vith greif agains me grind, His tanting toyes sall do my style no tort 1603 Moysie 96.
The diuk quarrellit the chanceller for vsing sum tanting wordis 1622-6 Bisset I 77/21.
Nor have I used minȝearde nor effeminate, tantting invective
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