Nut and date confection which is ridiculed (7)
I believe the answer is:
taunted
'ridiculed' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'nut and date confection' is the wordplay.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'confection' indicates an anagram (I've seen this in other clues).
'nut'+'date'='nutdate'
'nutdate' with letters rearranged gives 'TAUNTED'.
'which is' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for taunted that I've seen before include "Mocked, jeered" , "Derided, mocked" , "Twitted" , "Deliberately provoked by poking fun at" , "Jeered at in a cruel and hurtful way" .)