Possibly from an old French word 'tanter' meaning to tempt, to try or provoke
haunted
synonym for taunted
taunted
gibed, jibed
It is a verb and it is past tense.
The word taunt is a regular verb. The past tense is taunted.
The young boy taunted his sister.
They taunted her again about her disastrous prom dress.
You could be suspended if you taunted at the teacher.
the origin is where the word came from but the specific origin of the word ballot is latin root word.
The word "origin" is derived from the French word "origin" and the Latin word "originem," both of which mean, beginning, descent, birth, and rise.
where was the word colonel origin