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Teasing   /tˈizɪŋ/   Listen
Teasing

noun
1.
The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances.  Synonyms: ribbing, tantalization, tease.  "His ribbing was gentle but persistent"
2.
Playful vexation.
3.
The act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb.  Synonym: comb-out.
adjective
1.
Playfully vexing (especially by ridicule).  Synonyms: mocking, quizzical.
2.
Arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it.
3.
Causing irritation or annoyance.  Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, vexatious, vexing.  "Aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport" , "Found it galling to have to ask permission" , "An irritating delay" , "Nettlesome paperwork" , "A pesky mosquito" , "Swarms of pestering gnats" , "A plaguey newfangled safety catch" , "A teasing and persistent thought annoyed him" , "A vexatious child" , "It is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"


Tease

verb
(past & past part. teased; pres. part. teasing)
1.
Annoy persistently.  Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, pester.
2.
Harass with persistent criticism or carping.  Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, twit.  "Don't ride me so hard over my failure" , "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"
3.
To arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them.  "She has a way of teasing men with her flirtatious behavior"
4.
Tear into pieces.
5.
Raise the nap of (fabrics).
6.
Disentangle and raise the fibers of.  Synonyms: loosen, tease apart.
7.
Separate the fibers of.  Synonym: card.
8.
Mock or make fun of playfully.
9.
Ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect.  Synonym: fluff.



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"Teasing" Quotes from Famous Books



... I daresay it was my fault. Mamma says it's very teasing to talk about secrets, but it's all right now, and we are all going to be so happy with the doll-house, aren't we? Now you must kiss Celestina too; you don't know what a lot she's done. She hemmed the sheets of the beds and the table-cloths ...
— The Rectory Children • Mrs Molesworth
... out for pleasure in her frankness, and then he felt a gathering up of his coat-sleeve under her nervous fingers, as if (such a thing being imaginable) she were going unwittingly to pinch him for his teasing. "She said she wanted ...
— Questionable Shapes • William Dean Howells
... likely they will require some fresh signature. Whenever a French railroad company advertises the departure of a train at a particular hour, comes an order from the Prussians to alter that hour. Every Frenchman who quits Paris is subjected to a hundred small, teasing vexations from these military bureaucrats, and made to feel at every step he takes that he is a prisoner on leave of absence, and only breathes the air of his native land by the goodwill of his conquerors. The English public must not forget ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... than any two theatres, I'm thinking. And they didna come to hear me sing or crack a joke. They came to hear me talk—to hear me preach, if you'll be using that same word that my wife is sae fond of teasing me with. ...
— Between You and Me • Sir Harry Lauder
... Primrose was fond of teasing Rachel, but she rose now. When she had gone a step or two she turned ...
— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas


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