Teaser

Definition: Teaser

Teaser

Noun

1. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).

2. A flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "teaser" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)

Fine Arts

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Synonyms: Teaser

Difficulty

Noun: difficulty; hardness; Adjective: impracticability; (impossibility); tough work, hard work, uphill work; hard task, Herculean task, Augean task; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor, tough job, teaser, rasper, dead lift.

You're a teaser, you turn 'em on ("Dancing Queen"; performing artist: Abba)

Yo, tantalizing teaser (Perfect Gentleman; performing artist: Wyclef Jean)

The Teaser (1973)

Teaser (1986)

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Books

• Majesty and Pernicious Teaser (reference)

• Teaser and the Firecat (reference)

• The Charlotte Years Teaser Bookmark (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, based on sketches obtained when CSS Teaser was captured on the James River, Virginia, on 4 July 1862. It depicts CSS Richmond, which was then completing at Richmond, Virginia. Credit: NAVY.

James River, Va. Bow of Confederate gunboat Teaser, Lt. Hunter Davidson, captured by U.S.S. Maratanza on July 4, 1862. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "teaser": brain teaser ♦ Fire teaser ♦ Gull teaser. Additional references.

Ending with "teaser": brain-teaser, cock-teaser, power-teaser, strip-teaser.

Albanian

shpotar, ngacmues (annoying, excitative, excitatory, exciter, exciting, irritant, irritative, provocative, provoking, stimulant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضايق (annoying, bothersome, disagreeable, disturbing, irksome, irritating, tease, troublesome, vexatious, vexing), ‏مشكلة عويصة (thorny problem), ‏سؤال عويص. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стриптизьорка (stripper), стриптизьор, подигравач (mocker). (various references)

Chinese 

戏弄者. (various references)

Czech

hlavolam (braintwister), chyták (catch question), šprýmař (card, comedian, comic, jester, joker, tease, wag). (various references)

Danish

stoeberiarbejder (caster, founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), stoeber (caster, founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), smelter (caster, founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), skyrer (founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), rivewolfe (cockspur, picker, willey), ovnpasser (founder, furnace-man, heats attendant, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), lokkende annonce, kluderiver, fristende annonce. (various references)

Dutch

teaser, uitrafelaar, smelter (founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), pluktrekker, ovenstoker (founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), gieter (watering-can), balenbreker. (various references)

Farsi 

اذیت کننده (Ornery, Persecutor), شانه کننده پشم . (various references)

Finnish

sulattaja (founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), kiusantekijä (mischief-maker). (various references)

French

tiseur (metal tender, teazer), taquin (tease, teasing), problème difficile, loup, introduction, intro, fondeur (metal tender, teazer), effilocheur, couronnement, colle, annonce-amorce, amorce, aguiche. (various references)

German

Teaser, Schmelzer (smelter, smelters), Schürer (founder, furnace-man, gas maker, melter, metal tender, producer man, smelter, teazer, top man), schäker (flirt, joker), Reisser, Krempelwolf (cockspur, picker, tenterhook willey, tenterhook willow), harte nuss (facer, poser, tough nut), Gießer (founder, molder). (various references)

Greek 

σπαζοκεφαλιά (brainteaser, puzzle), προδιαφήμιση, πειράζων (rallier, tempting, vexer), πειρακτήριο (pesterer), πειραχτήρι (jackanapes), επιτηρητής τήξης (founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), λύκος (wolf), λαναριστής, ανοικτικό-καθαριστικό μαλλιού (cockspur, picker), τήκτης (founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer). (various references)

Hebrew 

ק� טרן, בעי�" קש�" (poser, thorny problem, tickler). (various references)

Hungarian

ugrató ember, szűzkurva, kötekedő ember, fogas kérdés (catch, poser, puzzler, puzzling question, sticker, thorny question), fejtörő (brain-racker, puzzle). (various references)

Italian

teaser, lupatore, importuno (clamorous, importunate, intrusive, meddlesome, obtruder, obtrusive, officious, pressing, troublesome), fonditore (caster, founder, melter), burlone (chaffer, joker, mocker, prankster, wag), Avviso che provoca curiosit� senza nominare il prodotto.. (various references)

Manx

boireyder (annoyer, nuisance, tease, troubler, worrier). (various references)

Pig Latin

easertay.(various references)

Portuguese

problema difícil, lobo-abridor (cockspur, picker, willow), fundidor (founder), desfiador, controlador do forno de fusão (founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), coisa que nos arrelia, cardador (carder, comber, scribbler, teaseler). (various references)

Russian 

задира (bully, cock sparrow, cockerel, rooster). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadirkivač, zadevalo (tease). (various references)

Spanish

rompecabezas (brainteaser, conundrum, jigsaw, jigsaw puzzle, puzzle), problema difícil (awkward problem, poser), guasón (jester, jesting, jocose, joker, jokey, joking, playful, sporty, tease, teasing), fundidor (founder), enfornador (founder, furnace-man, melter, metal tender, smelter, teazer), embromador (tease), cosa difícil (crux, trouble), campaña de misterio, campaña de intriga, bromista (facetious, humorist, humourist, jester, joker, prankster, wag), batán abridor (cockspur, picker). (various references)

Swedish

svår uppgift. (various references)

Turkish

takılan kimse (banterer, tease), muzip kimse, kızdıran kimse (baiter). (various references)

Ukrainian

головоломка (brainteaser, conundrum, puzzle), ворсувальник (carder), задирака (broiler). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người hay chòng ghẹo, công việc hắc búa (egg-dance), b� i tính hắc búa. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "teaser": teasers. (additional references)

Words ending with "teaser": brainteaser, stripteaser. (additional references)

Words containing "teaser": brainteasers, stripteasers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Teaser" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Seaser, Tasar, Taseer, taser, tazer, teager, teaker, teamer, teaqe, teares, teasery, teater, Teatre, teaze, Tekserv, teose, teser, tesler, tesser, Toader, Tresadern, twase, tweaser. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aretes, easter, eaters, reseat, seater.

-1 letter: arete, aster, eater, erase, ester, rates, reest, reset, saree, setae, stare, steer, stere, tares, tears, tease, terse, trees.

-2 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seat, seer, sera, sere, seta, star, tare, tars, tear, teas, tees, tree, tsar.

+1 letter: aerates, aeriest, aethers, afreets, austere, beaters, berates, cerates, creates, dearest, derates, earnest, eastern, easters, ecartes, elaters, ergates, estreat, feaster, heaters, nearest, realest, rebates, redates, reheats, relates, remates, repeats, reseats, reslate, restage, restate, retakes, retapes, retaste, retaxes, reteams, retears, roseate, searest, seaters, sedater, seriate, serrate, stealer, steamer, sweater, tearers, teasers, tessera.

+2 letters: abetters, absenter, absterge, accretes, acerbest, alertest, alterers, ammeters, amreetas, arbelest, arenites, ariettes, arrested, arrestee, arrester, arsenate, arsenite, arteries, asperate, assenter, asserted, asserter, ateliers, attester, austerer, berettas, bleaters, breasted, breathes, caterers, cateress, centares, cerastes, cheaters, clearest, cremates, debaters, desalter, dewaters, draftees, eagerest, earliest, earnests, earstone, earthset, easterly, eateries, emeritas, emirates, entreats, ersatzes, esterase, estrange, estrayed, estreats, etageres, eternals, exacters, exalters, fastener, feasters, feathers, features, fenestra, ferrates, gamester, grantees, greatens, greatest, halteres, hastener, headrest, heartens, hearties, heathers, hectares, hektares, hetaeras, iterates, keratose, leariest, leathers, masseter, mastered, meerkats, metamers, negaters, oleaster, operates, overeats, parietes, peartest, pederast, petrales, pleaters, predates, preheats, prelates, prepaste, pretapes, pretaste, protease, ratafees, ratteens, readiest, reagents, realters, realties, rearrest, reascent, reassert, rebaters, recheats, recrates, reenacts, refasten, reflates, regrates, relaters, remaster, repasted, replates, resalute, reseated, resinate, reslated, reslates, resonate, restaged, restages, restated, restates, retables, retakers, retasted, retastes, retraces, retreads, retreats, sarcenet, sarsenet, sauterne, seamster, seawater, secateur, separate, serenata, serenate, sergeant, seriated, seriates, serjeant, serrated, serrates, sheather, steadier, stealers, steamers, steamier, stearate, stearine, steerage, stemware, streaked, streaker, streamed, streamer, sweaters, sweatier, taperers, tarweeds, teachers, teamster, teariest, tearless, teaseler, teawares, telerans, temperas, terraces, terranes, terrases, tesserae, theaters, theatres, trainees, trapesed, trapeses, trapezes, traverse, treacles, treaders, treadles, treasure, treaters, treaties, treatise, veterans, wasterie, waterers, weariest, weathers, wetwares, wreathes, yeastier.