[f. TAUNT v.1 + -ER1.] One who taunts: see the verb.
1552. Huloet, Tawnter, nasutus.
1558. Cranmer’s Confut. Vnwritten Verities, Pref. B viij. Taunters & fault finders with others, rather then menders of themselfes.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1676), 291. Socrates … was a plain simple man to them that knew him but outwardly, or else a pleasant Taunter or Mocker.
1822. Examiner, 688/1. Cold-blooded taunter of the suffering people.
