Tease meaning
One that teases, as:
- A person who makes fun of or annoys others, as with playful or taunting remarks.
- A flirtatious person.
noun
Tease means to poke fun at someone or something.
An example of tease is making a cat chase something they'll never be able to catch.
An example of tease is repeatedly saying to a child that they have a crush on someone.
verb
To urge persistently; importune.
verb
To raise a nap on (cloth) by brushing with teasels; teasel.
verb
To annoy or harass by persistent mocking or poking fun, playful fooling, etc.
verb
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To indulge in teasing.
verb
A teasing or being teased.
noun
A person who teases.
noun
To annoy or make fun of someone persistently.
I was just teasing.
verb
An act of teasing, especially a playfully mocking remark.
His tease of his friend's little sister.
noun
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To separate the structural parts of a tissue, as with a needle, in order to prepare it for microscopic examination.
verb
To poke fun at.
verb
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One who teases.
noun
A single act of teasing.
noun
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Tease is defined as to excite hope or desire without intending to give any satisfaction.
An example of tease is what a nude dancer does to her customer during a lap dance.
verb
The definition of a tease is someone who says or does something to raise hope or desire but doesn't intend to give any satisfaction.
An example of tease is a woman who dances very sexy with someone in a bar for hours and then leaves alone at the end of the night.
noun
Tease is to fluff or separate fibers or hair by brushing with a comb or brush in the wrong direction.
An example of tease is making a bouffant hair style.
verb
Origin of tease
- Middle English tesen to comb apart from Old English tǣsan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English tesen, from Old English tÇ£san (“to tease"), from Proto-Germanic *taisijanÄ… (“to separate, tug, shred"), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to separate, divide"). Cognate with West Frisian tiezje, tiizje (“to baffle, perplex"), Dutch tezen (“to pull, tug, scratch"), German zeisen (“to pluck, pluck apart"), Danish tæse (“to tease"). Related to touse, tose.
From Wiktionary